Beta testers needed for a comic #kidlit bedtime book – about a family of talking dogs.

I have a kid’s book coming – maybe a few kid’s books. The comic premise: Self-help by dogs for dogs. The book I’m working on now will be called “The scientific art of getting lost, for dogs,” and it features four of the dogs I’ve loved best in my life, including Odysseus, whose enormous snout you see here.

It’s written to be a bedtime book, a chapter book that parents read to older kids – say four years old and up. It will be a workable chapter book for ambitious independent readers, too, but there is a second track of jokes for adults readers – who, after all, could get stuck reading it thirty-eleven times.

I need beta testers, as it were, adults to read a chunk of the book to kids to see how it’s working. You’re welcome to just read it yourself, and I’m interested in hearing about that experience, too. But I’m trying to make a strong connection with kids, so I’m eager to hear if I’m getting the job done.

I would love to hear from an illustrator, too, and if anyone knows anybody at Pixar…

Sneak a peek and let me know what you think.