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Margaret Marshall Saunders, Canada's first millionselling author, published a sequel to her awardwinning novel, Beautiful Joe, Describing a world where animals find themselves after death, Beautiful Joe's Paradise chronicles the afterlife of many of the animals introduced in her earlier books.
Long out of print and unavailable, this new edition commemorates theth anniversary of the original publication, I was very excited to hear about a sequel to a beloved classic from my childhood, so I picked this one up and dusted off my copy of the first one to reread and to read together.
I was reminded of how much I love the first book and how formative it was for me in my early years.
Outside of Charlottes Web this is where i developed a deep compassion for all the creatures of our world, be it human or dog or any other sort of animal.


Sanders wrote this book out of a moment of inspiration, finding in her own experience of love and loss and grief a way into the inexpressable joy of the Chrisitan imagination for a world being remade and the possibility of these immense souls' participation in it.
Thus she writes it from the perspective of a young mind who has the veil of this shadow hiding the marriage of heaven and earth from our view and in our suffering pulled wide open and gaining a glimpse of the greater reality and promise that beckons us forward.
This greater reality is made known through a journey in the space occupied by the souls of all the great creatures which, burdened as they are by the weight of sin in the world, are freed in death to live into their greatest potentials and joys.
She locates the burden these creatures bear in the nature that clouds their true nature, the same burden carried by humankind and yet afforded to creatures against any sense of will.
Thus we encounter creatures librerated from tendencies towards sin, and reformed according to the good and right, This helps to formulate compassion and empathy as we move through these lands with the help of our guide, the familiar Beautiful Joe, seeing in this greater reality a new ability to attend for the tragedy and suffering, such as the mistreatment of animals, we see on earth.
Death gives way to life, and as the creatures note, the animals don't perceieve death the same way this side of the resurrected promise.
They are truly alive while those on earth are more attune to the living dead, The hope then is for this sort of revelation to inform a greater witness to the hope of the new creation in the here and now, moving as we do from death to life in our effort to imitate the great maker of heaven and earth, a truth that should inform how we live in relationship with all of the ceatures of this world.
This is something Marshall deeply embodied in her own life and it is something that flows through honestly from the pages of this wonderful book.
This is the sequel to Beautiful Joe, which was one of my favorite books as a child, I read it multiple times, and the story of Beautiful Joe so named because his cruel master sliced off his ears and tail, making him look ugly and his new masters wanted him to feel better about himself never failed to affect me as the story of various animals and their owners was told from the perspective of Joe himself.


The sequel is also told in the first person, but not by Joe, but by Sam Emerson, who read Beautiful Joe's story.
Sam is distraught, okay, devastated is more modern word for his emotions, about the death of his dog, Rag, at the hands of a neighborhood boy, Hillington.


Sam gets transported by airship to The Island of Brotherly Love where animals of all kinds go when they die.
Once there, he and Rag are greeted warmly by all the animals, many of whom Sam has read about in Joe's story.
Sam discovers that Joe is President of the animals on the island, and he has adventures with many of the animals, but also learns some invaluable life lessons on how to treat any animal as well as moral lessons for dealing with people, too.


Having not read Beautiful Joe recentlyyears ago was the last time I read it, my recollections of the pets and characters of the book were sketchy.
This was unfortunate because some of the animals appear in the sequel, and it is presumed that all those details are fresh in the reader's mind.


I learned of some new animals previously unknown to me, which had me reaching for the dictionary, Because it was written well overyears ago, the language was a bit stilted, but again,
using a dictionary only improves the vocabulary.


Overall, glad to have read the book about Joe's and the other pets' eternal lives in a paradise where all animal have learned to get along.


Of the two, Beautiful Joe, and Beautiful Joe's Paradise, both of which I read when I was just a little kid, I liked the second better, for no reason I could give you now.
I just did. A boy's dog is killed by a kid throwing a rock, and he accompanies his dog, Rags, to the Paradise where animals go.
It's fanciful, but carries the same message of kindness to animals, Very interesting or common. Well worth the time to hear a new point of view about our fellow inhabitants of our world, Margaret Marshall Saunders CBE was a Canadian author, Saunders was born in the village of Milton, Queens County, Nova Scotia, She spent most of her childhood in Berwick, Nova Scotia where her father served as Baptist minister, Saunders is most famous for her novel Beautiful Joe, Originally published under the pseudonym Marshall Saunders, it is a story narrated by a dog who has had a difficult puppyhood with many obstacles including a cruel owner.
When the book was published in, both it and its subject received worldwide attention, It was the first Canadian book to sell over a million copies, and by the lates had sold over seven million copies worldwide.
In, Saunders was made a Commander of the British Empire C, B. E. , at the ti Margaret Marshall Saunders CBE was a Canadian author, Saunders was born in the village of Milton, Queens County, Nova Scotia, She spent most of her childhood in Berwick, Nova Scotia where her father served as Baptist minister, Saunders is most famous for her novel Beautiful Joe, Originally published under the pseudonym Marshall Saunders, it is a story narrated by a dog who has had a difficult puppyhood with many obstacles including a cruel owner.
When the book was published in, both it and its subject received worldwide attention, It was the first Canadian book to sell over a million copies, and by the lates had sold over seven million copies worldwide.
In, Saunders was made a Commander of the British Empire C, B. E. , at the time her country's highest civilian honor, Together with fellow Canadian author, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Saunders co founded the Maritime branch of the Canadian Women's Press Club, Following the success of Beautiful Joe, Saunders wrote than twenty other stories, a number of which provided social commentary on such things as the abolition of child labor, slum clearance, and the improvement of playground facilities.
Saunders died inin Toronto, Ontario where she had lived for a number of years, sitelink.