Book Review: Gully’s Travels by Tor Seidler

gullys travelsImagine living the life of absolute luxury in Manhattan in a 14th floor fashionable apartment on Fifth Avenue. Such is the life for Gully, an uppity purebread Lhasa Apso and his Professor Rattigan. Fancy trips to uptown grooming salons and yearly flights to Paris are the norm for this very spoiled hound. Gully lives an ooh-la-la , shi-shi lifestyle until his Professor proposes to his French love and Gully is quickly given away to live in Queens with his building’s doorman.

Screaming children, a cramped ground-floor apartment with beaten up furniture and a travel-a-long gerbil flip Gully completely upside down into a lowly mutt’s life.

At first, it’s hard to relate to Gully with his high-brow, “I’m better than you” attitude. Before long, however, Gully’s pain of being rejected by his Professor twice is too real to ignore. Gully learns the hard way about a humble lifestyle and what true friendship is really about.

If you liked Charlotte’s Web or Friendship According to Humphrey, then add Gully’s Travels to your reading list. You won’t be disappointed. Great family or classroom read-aloud and appropriate for all ages. One of the Battle of the Books for 2011. (reviewed by Mrs. Hembree)

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