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    Finding Gobi: Young Reader's Edition: The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey
    Finding Gobi: Young Reader's Edition: The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey
    Finding Gobi: Young Reader's Edition: The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey
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    Finding Gobi: Young Reader's Edition: The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey

    Written by Dion Leonard

    Narrated by Simon Bubb

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    Bring home the amazing true dog story of a friendship so strong that it crosses the globe! You will love the inspiring tale of Gobi, a lost dog who kept pace with an ultramarathon runner, Dion Leonard, across a vast desert. Follow their unlikely friendship through the challenges of an 80-mile race and Dion's struggle to bring Gobi home for good.

    Finding Gobi: The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey tells the gripping real-life adventure story of how Gobi followed Dion through the treacherous conditions of the Gobi desert and how, afterward, Dion searched the world for his four-legged friend in order to bring him home.

    This young reader's edition

    • adapts the bestselling adult book for 8- to 12-year-olds
    • shows that friendship is more important than winning
    • is a perfect classroom or family read-aloud book

    This heartwarming tale of friendship, loyalty, and determination is sure to delight and surprise any young dog lover.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTommy Nelson
    Release dateAug 29, 2017
    ISBN9781400314799
    Author

    Dion Leonard

    Dion Leonard is a 41 year old Australian who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with his wife Lucja. Dion has not only completed but competed in some of the world’s toughest ultra marathons across the planet’s most inhospitable landscapes. This includes running across the brutal Moroccan Sahara desert twice in the 250km Marathon Des Sables and also twice across South Africa's Kalahari Desert, also 250km. Dion's latest 250km race across the Gobi Desert in China turned out to be a completely different race where he fell in love with a stray dog (later named Gobi) that followed him during the week and who would change both of their lives forever.  

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    • 5/5
      It is the most beautiful and touching story I've ever heard.
    • 4/5
      After reading the picture book version of Gobi, the little dog with the big heart, I wanted to read this version. Dion Leonard came across Gobi while running a grueling 72 mile race, part of it through the Gobi Desert. When the little dog seemed to attach herself to Dion and run with her, he named her Gobi. The first part of this book describes the race, events that occurred, meeting Gobi and deciding to take her home to Edinburgh. The second part of the story is the difficulties Dion encountered trying to get Gobi home. Between the red tape, finding Gobi when she went missing and the culture of the area in China and their attitude toward dogs, it seemed like it was going to be an impossible task.

      I enjoyed both parts of this book. The camaraderie the runners shared even though they were competing against each other was heartwarming. The dangerous situations and how they were solved were very interesting. In the second part, I felt Dion's pain when he could not bring Gobi home with him. When he found out Gobi was missing, I felt like crying along with him. I am an animal lover, but what Dion and his wife went through is amazing. The people he met that helped him along the way restores my belief in the goodness of others. This is a good book to read if you are an animal lover, a runner or sports enthusiast or just someone who wants to feel good about other people. A great book for a school or public library. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via Netgalley.