Yob and the Bird Dog: Yob Learns to Make Wise Choices

Yob and the Bird Dog is the first in a series of books featuring siblings Yob and Lerig. In this book, Yob learns about making wise choices. Ride the wind of joy with Yob's bird dog creation and then feel his sadness when his bird dog crash-lands in the ocean after Yob makes the wrong choice and lets it go free in the ocean breeze to fly with the laughing birds. Read along with your child and see what lessons Yob and Lerig learn together at the beach the next day.

In this story, Yob learns about making wrong choices but leaves the beach joyful about his experiences and what he has learned with his "Bird Dog," and the Laughing Gulls.

You get more with this book than the average children's books. There are over 50 pages, much more than the average children's book, and the illustrations are beautifully done by award-winning artist and illustrator, Gabriele Liedtke. The illustrations allow children to feel the sand beneath their feet, see the waves crashing in from the ocean, and hear the Laughing Gulls gawking overhead.

In addition, at the end of the book, there is a section of suggested questions for teachers/parents to use to see what lessons children might have learned from the story. Each child's interpretation will be different but some common lessons should emerge.

There is also a page of suggested questions for parents to ask children. These questions not only help with comprehension but also to helps the parent/adult engage in a conversation with your child about some of the story's main points and values.

For those who want to instill some religious instruction, there is another section of questions for religious educators/parents to use to teach children some moral/religious lessons that some might see in the story. Although the story is not religious, for the religiously inclined, it can be used to teach certain Biblical truths.