Snickers

Snickers (1997) Post 262

Snickers by Sally Odgers

Snickers is a short easy-read about Mei Ling, who has a pet named Snickers. A school friend, who loves dogs, keeps coming up with comments comparing comparing Snickers unfavourably to a dog.  "You can cuddle a dog. You can't cuddle a duck." Mei Ling proves that she can. For every comment,she has the proof that it's incorrect, but she's stymied when Annabel suggests a duck can't be taught tricks. This one, she admits... but then Snickers goes "up tails all" in the pond. Honour is satisfied. The girls, and Snickers, head off home.

Snickers is named for a duck that befriended my daughter. Every time she returned the duck to the river, it would come back...

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Sally is Sally Odgers; author, manuscript assessor, editor, anthologist and reader. She runs http://www.affordablemanuscriptassessments.com and Prints Charming Books. (Sally is me, by the way, and I am lots of other things too, but these are the relevant ones for now.)

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