Bob the Railway Dog

I had never heard the story of Bob the Railway Dog until this book arrived in the library.  Apparently Bob is a sort of folk hero in Australia and I discovered a whole website devoted to Bob and his travels.  There is even a statue of Bob.

photo from Australian Geographic

The 3rd grade classes started off by discussing things they already knew about Australia before diving in to read the story and take a look at the website with photos and excerpts from old newspaper account of Bob and even a Google Map showing where the statue of Bob is located.

Something about a dog that traveled the rails all over Australia and made friends wherever he went captured my imagination and it was fun to share the story and the pictures and talk about Bob all together.



Bob the Railway Dog website (this is the one we looked at in class)

National Geographic article about Bob

Happy travels and Read On!
-Ms. J.