content: This was a 5 star book. It was very emotionaly for me,since I lost a Poodle 20 years ago. I treated my beloved Poodle named Pooh very similar to the author of Maya's First Rose. The book made me cry throughout the book because I kept thinking of my beloved Pooh,who I thought of as a child of mine. I still grieve and cry for her and also every pay day I buy her red roses and put them in a poodle vase,right by her urn which has her ashes.