Thanks, Eau Claire! / by Anne Ylvisaker

Thanks to the Chippewa Valley Book Festival for hosting me last weekend.

Thank you, Putnam School, for this fabulous welcome, including LeRoy's doghouse on the library door.

And cheers to the Eau Claire Humane Society and the volunteers who brought animals to the Petspectives event on Saturday. We learned about these adoptable creatures, heard LeRoy's tale, and wrote stories from the perspective of pets.

Lois the dog stole my heart, but I couldn't bring her back to Iowa. Surely someone in Wisconsin must have a home for this sweet as pie hound and these adorable twin kittens.