# Can I Be Your Dog?

**Author:** Troy Cummings
**Grade range:** Grades K–3
**Age range:** 5–8
**First published:** 2018
**Page count:** 40
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780399554537`
**ISBN-10:** `039955453X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/can-i-be-your-dog
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

This picture book shares the tale of Arfy, a homeless mutt who lives in a box in an alley. Arfy writes to every person on Butternut Street about what a great pet he'd make. His letters to prospective owners share that he's house broken! He has his own squeaky bone! He can learn to live with cats! But, no one wants him.

## Themes

- letters
- dogs
- dogs, fiction
- letters, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania)

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2020-2021 winner (K-3)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2020-2021 winner (K-3)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2020-2021 winner (K-3)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2020-2021 winner (K-3)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)

### Young Hoosier Book Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 2021 winner (Picture Book)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 2021 winner (Picture Book)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 2021 winner (Picture Book)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)

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