Puppy Place Books In Order

Publication Order of Puppy Place Books

Publication Order of Puppy Place: Special Edition Books

The Puppy Place book series is a popular series of children’s books and animal fiction stories. It is comprised of 53 books in total released between 2006 and 2017. The books are written by a renowned writer from the United States named Ellen Miles. In each of the books, Ellen Miles has mentioned the main characters as Lizzie and Charles Peterson. They are described as small kids, who develop an interest in puppies. Initially, they plead in front of their parents to get them a puppy. But, they don’t think that it is the right time to have a puppy in the family. But, the Peterson kids do not give up and rest only after they make only after making their parents buy a golden retriever for them. Then, as the series proceeds further, Charles and Lizzie bring home numerous puppies of different breeds. They look after them, care for them, build homes for them, and spend most of their time in their company. Over the course of the series, the kids also face and overcome several difficulties. They begin caring for the young and abandoned puppies.

Charles & Lizzie build the Puppy Place, which they use to provide a foster home for puppies. Later, the Peterson family goes on to become a foster family for the young dogs. Author Miles says that the series can be read in the order that pleases the readers as each book can be treated as a standalone story. All the novels of this long-running series were appreciated and liked by readers all over the world. Among the readers that the books managed to attract, most of them were kids. A large number of critics of children’s books seem to have loved this series. They gave excellent reviews for the books and their characters in various literary magazines, websites, and other platforms. Many of the books were also praised by the fellow writers of Ellen Miles. Her writing career grew to a great extent due to the success of this series. After the success of some of the initial titles, author Miles gained a lot of self-confidence and motivation to keep writing and add more titles. The series is still going on as author Miles is working to develop a few more stories and is expected to publish them in the coming days.

Ellen Miles is a reputed American novelist, who has expertise in writing children’s books. She is particularly very famous for writing the Kitty Corner and Puppy Place novel series. Ellen was born on April 08, 1957 in New York City. Currently, she resides in Vermont. Some of the stories written by Ellen have been translated into Spanish and French. She has developed a personal website, on which she posts updates about the recent happenings in her literary career, the release dates of her upcoming books, etc. Author Miles is in contract with the scholastic books for writing children’s stories and publishing them under their banner. The list of popular characters created by Miles in her books include Charles Peterson, Adam Peterson, Lizzie Peterson, Mia Battelli, and the parents of all these kids. Other than writing under her original name, author Miles also writes under the pen name of Kris Edwards. So far, she has penned a few books in the Santa Paws series as Kris Edwards. Ellen Miles spent her earlier years growing up in New York.

While growing up, she became interested in pet animals. She says that she was a bookworm since she was studying in kindergarten. Ellen believes being a bookworm helped her become an avid reader, and this in turn proved helpful in her writing work. Author Miles received a lot of inspiration from the works of prominent authors like Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Beverly Cleary. She is married, but does not have any kids of her own. Ellen Miles likes to shower all her love on her nieces, and her pets. In addition to writing novels, she loves to spend time outside. Among the activities Miles likes to take up, she loves biking, swimming, and walking. Very often in the summers, she visits her farm to spend some relaxing time there. During the winters, Ellen likes to indulge in cross country skiing. The reason she started writing stories about dogs is because she is a crazy dog lover herself. Ellen gets her ideas from various places, including newspapers, books, her own imagination, friends, etc. Throughout her life, Ellen Miles has lived in the company of many wonderful dogs, of which Django was her most favorite one.

A well known book of the Puppy Place series written by author Ellen Miles is entitled ‘Buddy’. The Scholastic publication released this book in 2007. This book consists of the primary characters as Charles Peterson, Skipper, Mrs. Peterson, Lizzie Peterson, etc. The story begins by showing Lizzie and Charles Peterson as being good with the puppies. They have always wished to have a personal puppy with which they can play and spend time. But, their mother doesn’t let them have one for full time. So, in the meantime, they try to fulfill their wish by helping in the caretaking of puppies that are in need of new homes. Lizzie Peterson joins a local shelter to look after the new arrivals there. The newest arrival at the shelter Skipper, gives a big surprise in the form of 3 newborn puppies. When Lizzie breaks this news to her brother Charles, they take the decision of fostering all the 4 dogs at their home. Their parents allow them to keep the dogs only till they find the right home for them. The Peterson siblings wonder how can her mother resist even the adorable puppies? When Mrs. Peterson is unable to take the sadness of her kids anymore, she allows them to have one of the puppies. They happily name it Buddy.

Another exciting volume of this series is called ‘Pugsley’. It was published in 2008 under the scholastic paperbacks publication. At this book’s start, it is depicted that Charles and Lizzie continue to shower their love on puppies. And now that they have a puppy of their own, Buddy, Lizzie believes she still does not get to spend enough time with the dogs. So, she decides to start helping her aunt named Amanda at her day care center for dogs. At the daycare, she comes across a lovable puppy named Pugsley. Even though Lizze finds it adorable, the owners think of getting rid of it as find it is too much for them to look after Pugsley. Lizzie thinks of helping Pugsley learn some good behavior and give up its nickname of Mr. Pest. It is only by behaving good that the owners will decide to rethink their decision of giving it away and also find a nice home for it forever.