Oh MegMeg...when I was a kid I wouldn't read a book about an animal before turning to the last page to see if said animal had been killed off or not. If the author killed the animal, I put the book down and found something else to read.

I looked through Newberry and Caldecott winners a couple years ago, and decided that they tend to be books that adults think kids should like, rather than books that kids themselves like.

But either way, I don't get the need to kill the dog.