Hotel for Dogs - Hardcover

Duncan, Lois

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039512364X ISBN 13: 9780395123645

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1971

Synopsis

Liz and her brother wind up with nine stray dogs that need homes but must be kept a secret.

About this title

From the Author:

Believe it or not, I wrote HOTEL FOR DOGS in 1971.  The book came and went with little fan fare, because everyone wanted me to "stop playing around with books for younger readers" and get back to writing young adult suspense novels.

Then, one day, in 2008, when my film agent was out in Hollywood, marketing firm rights to those popular suspense novels, one of the producers at Dreamworks asked, "Are those by the same Lois Duncan who wrote HOTEL FOR DOGS, my favorite book when I was a little boy?"

The book was long out of print, and my agent had to phone me to find out.  I dimly remembered having written that book, but it had been so long ago that I'd forgotten what it was about and had to order a used copy on line to find out.

The rest is history.  HOTEL FOR DOGS became a big screen movie, and I got to go to Hollywood to watch part of the filming.  Hollywood makes everything more sensational, so my dog refuge, (which in the book was a deserted house), became a deserted hotel in the movie, and my original nine dogs became 60.  I even got to be an extra in the scene where the dog catchers rush in to capture the dogs!

Scholastic republished the book, and I continued on to take "Andi" and "Bruce" and their canine friends through further adventures in two sequels -- NEWS FOR DOGS and MOVIE FOR DOGS.
--Lois Duncan

About the Author:

Lois Duncan modeled the main character in HOTEL FOR DOGS after her childhood self. Like Andi, Lois knew from an early age that she wanted to be a writer and started submitting stories to magazines when she was ten. Today she is the author of 50 books, most of them for young people. She lives in Sarasota, Florida, with her husband, and can be found online at http://loisduncan.arquettes.com/.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 039512364X
• ISBN 13: 9780395123645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 165
• Illustrator: Shortall Leonard W.