Trust Your Dog: Police, Firefighters, and Military Officers Talk About Their K-9 Partners
Joan Plummer Russell is the author of Aero and Officer Mike, winner of the International Reading Association’s 2001 Book of the Year Award for juvenile nonfiction and a Bank Street College “Children’s Book of the Year.”  Joan has logged over eight hundred hours on ride-alongs with on-duty policemen, and has traveled to many corners of the United States recording firsthand accounts of police officers in their work with K-9 partners.  She lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio.