New • Illustrated Paperback

My Puppy & Me: Our First Year Together

An illustrated puppy care guide and fill-in keepsake in one book. Kids ages 6–10 learn how to feed, train, and understand their new puppy — then record every milestone of the first year: first day home, first walk, first tricks, first birthday. Finished, it becomes the story of your puppy's first year in your child's own handwriting.

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My Puppy & Me book cover — a child hugging a Duck Tolling Retriever puppy
Inside the book
  • 11 kid-friendly chapters with grown-up tip boxes
  • Photo pages for every big first
  • Official Adoption Certificate & paw-print page
  • Potty star chart, trick tracker & growth chart
  • 54 full-color pages · 8.5″ × 8.5″

A how-to guide and a memory book in one

Most puppy books teach. This one teaches — and remembers.

📖 Learn together

Meet Maple, a little Duck Tolling Retriever who guides young readers through the ride home, the first night, mealtime, potty training, puppy body language, safe play, grooming, and vet visits — in warm, kid-sized language.

🐾 Grown-up tips on every topic

Green "For Grown-Ups" boxes carry the practical details — feeding schedules, vaccination timing, crate training, bite-prevention basics — so parents always have the full picture on the same page.

📸 Keep every milestone

Fill-in profile pages, photo frames for the big firsts, an adoption certificate to sign, a paw-print keepsake, a growth chart, and trackers for potty training and tricks. A gift the family finishes together.

Look inside

A few of the 54 full-color pages.

Hi, I'm Maple — introduction page with watercolor puppy
Maple welcomes young readers
Official Adoption Certificate page to fill in and sign
The Official Adoption Certificate
My First Day Home photo keepsake page
First-day photo keepsake page
Potty training star chart page
The potty star chart

Details

Spec
Detail
Ages
6–10 (read & fill in together — younger kids love it read aloud)
Format
Paperback, 8.5″ × 8.5″, 54 pages, full color on white paper (easy to write on)
Chapters
Getting ready · the ride home · settling in · puppy talk & body language · mealtime · potty training · the first night · play & training · grooming & vet · the Puppy Promise
Keepsake pages
Puppy profile · adoption certificate · 5 photo pages · paw print · growth chart · firsts checklist · trackers · memory journal
Training approach
Positive reinforcement only — no punishment-based methods

Bring one home with your puppy

The paperback is the keepsake — built to be written in, pasted into, and kept.

Buy on Amazon

In Canada? Get it on Amazon.ca ($17.99 CAD, ships locally). Digital (PDF) edition coming soon — contact me to hear when it's ready.