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I was like, May, who wants a dog (in I Want A Dog) more than any thing else. At school she sometimes gets to imagining that her classmates are all dogs. Mays parents won't let her have a dog, no mater who much she says, "I want a dog."

May tried to show her parents through her great determination ten dogs to her home with salmon. Her mother wanted the dogs returned to where they came from. Then later, May bought a puppy for her mother's birthday with her allowance money. Well, her plan didn't work either. After that, May's parents both had a long talk about the trials and tribulations of raising dogs as pets, and all the responsibilities that come with it. Both of them of them stood firm, and there would be no dog.

May decided to be outraged by not being able to have a dog and threw her toys around her bedroom. Soon after, May seen one of her white roller-skates rolling down a staircase like a dog, and that gives her an idea to train the roller-skate like she would a dog. May's friends from school all wanted to walk the skate like a dog when they heard about it.

On another day, May went to the neighborhood luncheonette to check out the new comic books. She left her "dog" outside, and a real dog came along and took her skate. May was in a panic about its whereabouts, and soon finds it nearby.

As time goes by, May and the roller-skate became friends, and this craze caught on with the other children in her community. At the end of the story is when a big surprise happens, and May was given a real dog from her parents. Her parent could see that she worked hard to train that pretend dog of hers, and took care of it like a real one.

I Want a Dog is a children's book written and illustrated by Dayal Kaur Khalsa, originally published by Tundra Books and Clarkson N. Potter in 1987.