Goodreads asked Tricia Brown:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Tricia Brown My most recent book "Bobbie the Wonder Dog." It's the true story of an amazing collie that lived in the mid-1920s in rural Oregon. In 1923, Bobbie and his family took a cross-country driving trip from Oregon to Indiana for a vacation, and there he was chased off by a pack of dogs. His owners were heartbroken, but had to drive back home at the end of their trip...without their beloved pet. As for Bobbie, he decided to WALK back home to Oregon, covering nearly 3,000 miles in six months. The feat landed him in newspapers, books, and magazines across the country, and even "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" The seed of a book idea was planted during my annual drives through Bobbie's hometown of Silverton, where a 70-foot outdoor mural retells the saga of Bobbie's homeward-bound walk. I was always in a hurry driving through that little town, and I never took the time to stop and read the signs and look at the art until one year. I was bowled over learning about this once-famous dog. A few years later, I got a call from the publisher, asking me to write a children's book about Bobbie. They had seen an article in Portland's "Oregonian" newspaper, reporting about a small group from Bobbie's hometown who wanted to move Bobbie's grave from a pet cemetery in Portland, Oregon, back to Silverton, his hometown. The article stirred the attention of Graphic Arts Books and they reached out to me. I have *loved* getting to know Bobbie while researching stories in print and by connecting with the descendants of the couple who owned him. And I've found that young readers really appreciate hearing TRUE stories.

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