The dog is called Sandy. I like Sandy. He is not clever but he is very cheerful.

"We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test."

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.