A review by northstar
Bravest Dog Ever: Story of Balto by Natalie Standiford

4.0

This is not fine literature, but I usually find these learn-to-read books dull and this one tells a compelling story of a dog in Alaska who helps rescue a town by delivering medicine during a blizzard. My dog-fearing 4-year-old enjoyed listening to it and the author does a good job of describing the dangers of diptheria (the book is set in 1925) without scaring the bejeebers out of kids. I wish more early readers were as interesting to adults.