I recently learned that February 2nd is Sled Dog Day! It seems to be in honor of the dogs that pulled the sleds that took the serum to Nome to stop an outbreak of diphtheria 1925. The weather was such that planes could not fly (think open cockpit here) so the decision was made to transport the serum by dog sled. I decided to include two of my favorite books again, and when I looked back I saw that I used these two books in my first post on February 8, 2014, so I wasn't too far off Sled Dog Day, even though I didn't know it! They were: The Cruelest Miles: the Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against An Epidemic, by Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury, and The Great Serum Run: Blazing the Iditarod Trail, by Debbie S. Miller and illustrations by Jon Van Zyle. Expect more books about these amazing dogs come March and the Iditarod.

Today is also Groundhog Day. Will there be six more weeks of winter? Find out more about this rather strange holiday in Groundhog Day! by Gail Gibbons and Groundhog Weather School, by Joan Holub and illustrated by Kristin Sorra. Both are picture books so they won't take you long and are just plain fun to read!

Spring is coming. Isn't it? One young groundhog thinks it is but the males in the family disagree. Read how she convinces the retiring elder to change the way things have always been done in Punxsutawney Phyllis, by Susanna Leonard Hill and illustrated by Jeffry Ebbeir. Great fun!

Reading Hermit With Dog