Candy

About the Book

This book comprises a series of short stories about a golden retriever dog, told, as it were, in her own words - not in a cutesey-pie, nice doggy sort of way, but more in terms of gentle ironic humor, laced with love. Candy believes she is big, bold, bright and beautiful. Big and beautiful she certainly is, but timid and dumb are perhaps closer descriptions than bold and bright.

However, she always seems to find herself in situations where, more by good luck then good management, she does the right thing at the right time. It is hoped that the adult reading the stories to a child will enjoy the humor, while the child will enjoy the adventure as well.

The book has been successfully test-read to groups of school children of various ages.

About the Author

Although you wouldn't know it from the flow of his writing, T. Morris Fraser is a medical specialist, an engineer, and a retired professor with six technical books and many academic and professional papers to his credit. But clearly his love of dogs is paramount. With a wry humor and a sense of the ridiculous he sees traits in dogs that reflect what they might see in the people and things around them.

Born in Scotland, he has worked in Britain, Switzerland, Asia, the USA, and Canada where he lived as a Canadian citizen for the last 25 years. With his wife, the "Dog Lady", who did most of the work, they operated a breeding and boarding dog kennel from which he derived most of the stories related herein, and where they lived with their beloved Candy.