“Argos, the three-year-old male English Mastiff, and Abby, the one-year-old girl Beagle, are Jan and Jenny’s dogs. Whenever the twins visit their parents, they bring their dogs along…”

“Nine-year-old Lulu was the tree-climbing champion of her village. She climbed trees faster than squirrels and scrambled up bamboos faster than boys slid down their stalks…”