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Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen

By Candace Fleming
Illustrated by Eric Rohmann

By Candace Fleming
Illustrated by Eric Rohmann

By Candace Fleming
Illustrated by Eric Rohmann

By Candace Fleming
Illustrated by Eric Rohmann

By Candace Fleming

By Candace Fleming

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Feb 06, 2018 | ISBN 9781101934104 | Middle Grade (8-12)

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May 02, 2023 | 120 Minutes | Middle Grade (8-12)

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    About Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen

    For fans of Balto and other real-life dog stories, here’s a heavily illustrated middle-grade novel about a canine movie star of the 1920s, dramatically told in both words and pictures by an acclaimed author and a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator.

    When movie director Larry Trimble travels to Berlin searching for his next big star–a dog!–he finds Etzel, a fierce, highly trained three-year-old German shepherd police dog. Larry sees past the snarls and growls and brings Etzel back to Hollywood, where he is renamed Strongheart. Along with screenwriter Jane Murfin, Larry grooms his protégé to be a star of the silver screen–and he succeeds, starting with Strongheart’s first film, The Love Master, which is released in 1921. Strongheart is soon joined by a leading lady, a German shepherd named Lady Julie, and becomes a sensation.

    Touching, charming, playful, and based on real events, this moving tale by Candace Fleming and illustrated by Eric Rohmann tells all about “the wonder dog” who took America by storm.

    A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018
    A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018

    About Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen

    For fans of Balto and other real-life dog stories, here’s a heavily illustrated middle-grade novel about a canine movie star of the 1920s, dramatically told in both words and pictures by an acclaimed author and a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator.

    When movie director Larry Trimble travels to Berlin searching for his next big star–a dog!–he finds Etzel, a fierce, highly trained three-year-old German shepherd police dog. Larry sees past the snarls and growls and brings Etzel back to Hollywood, where he is renamed Strongheart. Along with screenwriter Jane Murfin, Larry grooms his protégé to be a star of the silver screen–and he succeeds, starting with Strongheart’s first film, The Love Master, which is released in 1921. Strongheart is soon joined by a leading lady, a German shepherd named Lady Julie, and becomes a sensation.

    Touching, charming, playful, and based on real events, this moving tale by Candace Fleming and illustrated by Eric Rohmann tells all about “the wonder dog” who took America by storm.

    A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018
    A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018

    About Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen

    For fans of Balto and other real-life dog stories, here’s a heavily illustrated middle-grade novel about a canine movie star of the 1920s, dramatically told in both words and pictures by an acclaimed author and a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator.

    When movie director Larry Trimble travels to Berlin searching for his next big star–a dog!–he finds Etzel, a fierce, highly trained three-year-old German shepherd police dog. Larry sees past the snarls and growls and brings Etzel back to Hollywood, where he is renamed Strongheart. Along with screenwriter Jane Murfin, Larry grooms his protégé to be a star of the silver screen–and he succeeds, starting with Strongheart’s first film, The Love Master, which is released in 1921. Strongheart is soon joined by a leading lady, a German shepherd named Lady Julie, and becomes a sensation.

    Touching, charming, playful, and based on real events, this moving tale by Candace Fleming and illustrated by Eric Rohmann tells all about “the wonder dog” who took America by storm.

    A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018
    A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018

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    About Candace Fleming

     Why did I write Clever Jack Takes the Cake? Mostly for fun, but also because I wanted to try my hand at writing a fairy tale. I do that a lot as a writer—challenge myself to try new things—and tackling… More about Candace Fleming

    About Eric Rohmann

    “Children are the best audience: they are curious, enthusiastic, impulsive, generous, and pleased by simple joys. They laugh easily at the ridiculous and are willing to believe the absurd. Children are not ironic, disillusioned, or indifferent, but hopeful, open-minded, and… More about Eric Rohmann

    About Candace Fleming

     Why did I write Clever Jack Takes the Cake? Mostly for fun, but also because I wanted to try my hand at writing a fairy tale. I do that a lot as a writer—challenge myself to try new things—and tackling… More about Candace Fleming

    About Eric Rohmann

    “Children are the best audience: they are curious, enthusiastic, impulsive, generous, and pleased by simple joys. They laugh easily at the ridiculous and are willing to believe the absurd. Children are not ironic, disillusioned, or indifferent, but hopeful, open-minded, and… More about Eric Rohmann

    About Candace Fleming

     Why did I write Clever Jack Takes the Cake? Mostly for fun, but also because I wanted to try my hand at writing a fairy tale. I do that a lot as a writer—challenge myself to try new things—and tackling… More about Candace Fleming

    Product Details

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Books | Children’s Middle Grade Action & Adventure Books

    Hardcover | $17.99
    Published by Schwartz & Wade
    Feb 06, 2018 | 256 Pages | 6-1/8 x 8 | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9781101934104

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Books | Children’s Middle Grade Action & Adventure Books

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Schwartz & Wade
    Feb 06, 2018 | 256 Pages | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9781101934128

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Books | Children’s Middle Grade Action & Adventure Books | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $11.00
    Published by Listening Library
    May 02, 2023 | 120 Minutes | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9780593748190
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    Praise

    “With the story’s most incredible plot developments based on fact, this fascinating and heartwarming piece of historical fiction will be met with wonder.”—Booklist, starred review

    Awards

    Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award WINNER 2020

    Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books SELECTION 2018

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