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Dakota Douglas was born and grew up in Newcastle, North-East England. She is a retired newspaper reporter, now following her childhood dream of being a novelist.
As a kid she read books under the bedclothes by torchlight. Now she dives under the covers, torch in hand, to scribble down conversations between her book characters in case she forgets them in the morning. She has written stories since she was about eight years old. She wrote them on a toy typewriter and her dad did the illustrations.
When she wasn't pounding on her typewriter, she was found smashing a tennis ball against the brick end of a block of garages beside her home. For hours on end she perfected her lob, backhand and forehand shots - all the time spinning stories in her head.
She gets inspiration for her stories from dreams. One night, she woke up in the early hours, with the idea for WOOF in her head.
Reviewed by Lee Ashford for Readers' Favorite
“Woof” by Dakota Douglas is a delightful book to spark a child’s imagination and introduce him to the wonderful world of reading. “Woof” contains a pair of short stories, presenting sequential adventures in the life of a young boy and a stray dog. The boy, Jeremy, is not too popular at school, because the other kids think he is stuck up. Both his parents are attorneys, so it is not hard to imagine that he might be stuck up, but in fact he is just rather shy. While watching the other kids play a ball game one day, Jeremy notices a stray dog that had been following him around for a few days. The dog wags his tail and acts as though Jeremy is a life-long friend, so Jeremy decides to name him Rufus, since he has no tags or even a collar. But when Rufus jumps up on Jeremy’s chest, everything suddenly goes black for a second, and then Jeremy realizes HE is now the DOG, and RUFUS is now HIM! So what looks like a dog is really Jeremy, and he can talk. What looks like Jeremy is really a dog, and he can only bark! This is the inspired premise on which both these short stories are built, and it makes for a couple of awesome adventures.
Dakota Douglas has a truly magnificent imagination, as these two tales show to her great acclaim. The various reactions from the different people with whom Jeremy/Rufus interact are quite amusing, as when “Jeremy” walks on all fours and eats his food after using only his teeth to place his bowl on the floor! When he drinks out of the toilet bowl, his mother and her housekeeper both, quite naturally, go hysterical. It was almost challenging to keep track of who was whom while reading these two stories, and it must have given Dakota a few headaches as she wrote them! Her gifted imagination came through, however, resulting in two very droll tales of a boy and his dog; but these are nothing like any “boy and his dog” story you have ever read before! “Woof” is a volume to be enjoyed by young and old alike. You will want this one on your bookshelf.
