The Upbringing of Mom and Dad! How To Train the Perfect Parents by Rebecca Ashdown

PARENTS DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW HARD IT IS TO BE A KID.

PARENTS JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT US KIDS WANT. (PUPPY!)

AND NEED! (PUPPY!)

YOU CAN'T BLAME THEM. THEY HAVEN'T BEEN TRAINED.

But not for long! Mimi has a plot for a successful plan to get a puppy. Her parents may be totally unaware of the very existence of puppies, but she's going to blanket the place with an advertising plan that would make any mass marketer quail. Her parents will be totally trained when she's done.

And then comes the big push! What parents could possibly resist the compulsion to provide Mimi with a puppy when they see those polished, posh, perfectly performing pooches at the dog show. Mom! Dad! can we go? Please!

And Mimi makes the sale, in Rebecca Ashdown's How to Train the Perfect Parents (Sterling, 2019). Of course, things get really, um, messy when Mimi actually plunges into puppy care, and there's a bit of a question as to who is training whom, but youngsters will find plenty of fun in dog training as well as parent training in this charming pet tale.