title: Little Scraggly Hair: A Dog on Noah's Ark
author:  Lynn Cullen 
description: Kindergarten-Grade 3-This story reads aloud well, but the author's choice to set it in Appalachia is disconcerting and confusing. Back in the days when dogs had warm, dry noses, a scruffy brown pooch searches for a home. Lonely and hungry, Little Scraggly Hair enters a farmyard where Noah is building a huge boat. After the man throws him a crumb, the dog helps out by carrying bags of nails and fetching pieces of wood. When the time comes to gather the animals, he herds them aboard. The ark is so crowded that he has to stick his nose out through a knothole, and it becomes cold and wet during the journey. When they reach land, Noah tells his disapproving wife that Little Scraggly Hair must stay by the fire until his nose is warm and dry again. So begins the friendship between canines and humans. The text is written in a southern Appalachian dialect. The soft, realistic watercolor illustrations bring in the visual elements of this region-wooden cabins, rag rugs, mountains-as well as the drama of the Flood. Definitely a different take on Noah's tale, this picture book is an additional purchase.<br /><i>Linda Staskus, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Parma, OH</i><br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  I went invisible for the first time on my twelfth birthday.
  
  It was all Whitey’s fault, in a way. Whitey is my dog. He’s just a mutt, part
  terrier, part everything else. He’s all black, so of course we named him
  Whitey.
  
  If Whitey hadn’t been sniffing around in the attic…
  
  Well, maybe I’d better back up a bit and start at the beginning.
  
  My birthday was on a rainy Saturday. It was a few minutes before kids would
  start arriving for my birthday party, so I was getting ready.
  
  Getting ready means brushing my hair.
  
  My brother is always on my case about my hair. He gives me a hard time because
  I spend so much time in front of the mirror brushing it and checking it out.
  
  The thing is, I just happen to have great hair. It’s very thick and sort of a
  golden brown, and just a little bit wavy. My hair is my best feature, so I
  like to make sure it looks okay.
  
  Also, I have very big ears. They