For Dog Lovers Everywhere
For Dog Lovers Everywhere: <i>The Eyes of the Impossible<i>, by Dave Eggers and Shaun Harris As a middle school student, I read and loved Old Yeller by Fred Gipson, but as a young adult White Fang (Jack London) changed my life. Forever more I believed dogs could hear and understand much more than I ever realized. They certainly could communicate even without human language. The 2024 Newbery Award winning book The Eyes of the Impossible, by Dave Eggers opened my eyes to the beauty of animal communication among all the species. If you've ever watched a stand-off between a cat and a blue jay, you know what I mean. The cat squawls and expands, the bird chirps and dances and pokes her beak. Clearly, there is communication between two different species. The animals in Eggers' book share a beautiful community of all types and species from buffaloes to sea gulls. The main character is a dog who calls himself Johannes. He is the "EYES" of their animal com