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The Bow-wow Bus

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by Paul DuBois Jacobs


  “Okay,” said Ethan. “Action!”

  “Our first morning chore is to feed the Animal Inn pets,” said Jake. He walked toward the supply closet.

  I slinked out from behind the sofa to see what would be for breakfast.

  “Cut!” said Ethan again.

  “What now?” asked Jake.

  “Everybody knows we feed the pets,” said Ethan. “This is supposed to be a really cool video for our website. What’s the next chore?”

  “Sweeping the Welcome Area,” said Jake with a sigh.

  “That isn’t very exciting,” said Ethan.

  I looked around. Ethan was right. The Welcome Area wasn’t very exciting at the moment. Leopold was preening his feathers, and my little brother Whiskers was already dozing.

  “Let’s give it one more try,” said Jake.

  Ethan held up the phone. “Action!” he said.

  Urrrrrrrrrr!

  Dad appeared outside the window with the leaf blower strapped to his back. He wore big safety goggles and ear-protection headphones. Leaves blew all around him.

  Urrrrrrrrrr!

  Whiskers’s eyes suddenly shot open.

  He spotted the figure at the window and leaped high into the air, paws stretched straight out in front. He soared in a perfect arc, then landed with a thump and skedaddled up the stairs.

  “Wow!” said Jake, turning to the camera. “Now that was exciting!”

  “And cut!” said Ethan.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  PAUL DUBOIS JACOBS & JENNIFER SWENDER are a husband-and-wife writing team and authors of many books for children, including Count on the Subway, My Subway Ride, My Taxi Ride, and Fire Drill. Paul has also cowritten four books with musician Pete Seeger, including Abiyoyo Returns and The Deaf Musicians, winner of the ALA’s Schneider Family Book Award. Paul and Jennifer have appeared at Lincoln Center, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Virginia Festival of the Book, as well as countless schools, libraries, and museums. They live in Massachusetts. Visit Paul and Jennifer at jacobsandswender.com.

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  Read more Animal Inn books!

  BOOK 1 : A Furry Fiasco

  BOOK 2: Treasure Hunt

  Coming soon:

  BOOK 4: Bright Lights, Big Kitty!

  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  First Aladdin paperback edition April 2017

  Text copyright © 2017 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.

  Illustrations copyright © 2017 by Stephanie Laberis

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  Cover designed by Jessica Handelman

  Cover illustrations copyright © 2017 by Stephanie Laberis

  Interior designed by Greg Stadnyk

  The illustrations for this book were rendered digitally.

  Library of Congress Control Number 2016954218

  ISBN 978-1-4814-6230-3 (hc)

  ISBN 978-1-4814-6229-7 (pbk)

  ISBN 978-1-4814-6231-0 (eBook)

 

 

 


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