The One Eyed Pug

by Deborah Dolan Hunt, Deborah Hunt

The One-Eyed Pug is based on a true story. Children and adults will fall in love with the lovely little pug, and eventually come to love the incorrigible Chewy, too! In this story, a little pug keeps hoping she will find her forever home but every time she thinks she has found it she has to move, or is adopted by a new family. Finally, she is adopted by the Barker family and believes she has finally found her forever home. Everything is perfect until the terrible horrible thing happens; a new puppy named Chewy comes to live with the family and makes the little pug's life miserable. Then one day when the two puppies are playing and finally getting along Chewy accidently scratches the pug's eye and she has to go to the hospital. What will happen the little pug? What will happen to Chewy? You will find out when you read this truly intriguing tale.

Genres: Childrens

48 pages, Hardcover

Published August 15, 2017

About the author

Deborah Hunt is a nursing professor and writer who lives in New York with her family and the incorrigible Chewy Belle. She refers to herself as an eclectic author as she writes in multiple genres. She considers herself a "Work in Progress" and is always striving to learn and grow in nursing and writing, and life. Several of her books have won awards and her greatest joy is sharing her books with everyone. She hopes her journey will inspire everyone to never give up on their dreams despite adversity. She also strives to inspire kids to develop a love of reading as she believes "A book is your passageway to the universe"~D.D. Hunt

Deborah is represented by Dawn Dowdle at Blueridge Literary Agency and has publishing contracrs with PenIt, Touch Point Press, Clearfork, and Springer Publishers. She has two amazing critique groups and attends a weekly writing course and various writing conferences. She loves sharing her books with the universe.

Deborah loves all types of books, the beach, painting, gardening, cooking. She is also a health advocate and is a member of her local community board where she serves as Co-Chair of it's Health and Human Services Committee.


Deborah
"May you always have a book to read and a story to hold in your heart"~D. D. Hunt

Reviews

[LenLen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was blessed enough to meet this author the other day at a reading in my child's school. She was amazing, attentive, and truly passionate about educating children through her stories.

However, I don't lie or promote books I truly don't like. So here's the truth... I didn't read it. I'm not sure I ever will, but my Daughter did and she absolutely loves it.

She now has picked up the words "whimper, whimper" with a pouty face, of course when she wants to get her way. She reads this book constantly and I see her joy. So, my 5 star review is based on my daughters opinion. She loves this book and she's excited to read more from this author.

[Sissy Lu {Book Savvy Reviews} · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an adorable little story that follows Chewy the pug in her eventful life. I read this to my kiddos and they thoroughly enjoyed it. It was adventurous, tackled some heavier topics of 'being different' and finding the right fit for every family and setting, which may or may not speak to a child who has to go through similar things.

One thing I found that my children and I think most children won't grasp is how to relate to a dog. They refer to the owners as parents which I think is confusing, children are quite capable of grasping thing but relating a dog to a sister or child may confuse them.

This would be a good read for a first grader or second grader, someone who is new but more experienced in reading.

[Rinda Beach · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you know a young reader who loves dogs? This is the perfect easy chapter book for them! Poor pug is given to Julie, but she can’t keep her. She has to move. Then pug finds another home. It’s just right, until the very worst thing ever happens – she loses an eye. Read to find out how pug deals with the accident and a new physical challenge. It’s also a good read for littles to learn about medical emergencies and forgiveness. If you read all the way to the end, you’ll even find out pug’s name! Sorry, I promised to keep it secret😊

[John Luciano · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a wonderful story!! The little ones were captivated by the heart warming story. Had such a nice experience reading this story to my nieces and seeing them fall in love with this book was truly a gift!! I recommend anyone looking for a change of pace book to bring home to the family give this book a read. 5 stars all the way!!!

[Lisa Costello · Rating 5 out of 5]

Deborah Hunt came to visit us in my library 📖📚
My kids absolutely loved listening to Deborah read us The One Eyed Pug 💞

[Sarah M · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a decent book when talking about kids books. It features a young pug who loves everybody she meets and lives life with many valid feelings. She goes from her doggie parents to Julie to a new family. Then she has an accident that leaves her with one eye.
The book was decent. It was three stars as it wasn’t unfinishable. It did leave me wanting more though. It had this pug puppy bounce around to families until she meets her, what im assuming is, forever family. Each part on her families is long enough that i get a sense of her life there.
I think the biggest downside to this book is that is is called the one eyed pug, but there isn’t much on her accident or after the accident. It said she was playing and then her eye hurt and then she had surgery and no longer had her eye and that was pretty much it. I personally would love to see how she adapted to life with one eye.
The positive about this book is that it is well made for a children’s tale. It doesn’t seem hard to read for the younger audience it’s intended for. It has easy enough words and language used is age appropriate. My only advice is either find a new title for this book or add more in depth to the one eyed puppy part of this tale.