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Norman, Speak!<\/a> Booktalk:<\/strong> A boy and his family who adopt a dog that just can\u2019t seem to learn the things other dogs do. Norman won\u2019t respond to commands. He doesn\u2019t even know his own name. During a chance encounter with another dog owner in the park, the family is very surprised to learn the reason for Norman\u2019s confusion; he \u201cspeaks\u201d Chinese instead of English! And so the family enrolls in a language class…<\/p>\n Snippet:<\/strong> Copyright \u00a9 2014 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. Norman, Speak! by Caroline Adderson (Author) and Qin Leng (Illustrator) Booktalk: A boy and his family who adopt a dog that just can\u2019t seem to learn the things other dogs do. Norman won\u2019t respond to commands. He doesn\u2019t even know his own name. During a chance encounter with another dog owner in the park, the … Continue reading Norman, Speak!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-picture-book-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nby Caroline Adderson (Author) and Qin Leng (Illustrator)<\/p>\n
\nWe went over to the man. He was talking to both dogs, and both dogs were listening. We didn’t understand a word he said.
\nThen he turned to us and asked, “Is this your dog?”
\n“Yes,” we said.
\nHe laughed. “Your dog understands Chinese. Did you know that?”<\/p>\n
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