Category: Books

I was so happy to receive this note from Dr. Debra Hoffman, my veterinarian. She wrote: Dear Sylvia, I just finished reading Mitzvah the Mutt.  What an adorable book!!!  I loved it!  I had a mutt named Mitzvah – a black cockapoo – and I can hear her thinking just…

I just read my first review of Mitzvah the Mutt, and it was wonderful!! In the Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter for May/June 2010, Andrea Davidson, Temple Tifereth Israel, Beachwood, Ohio wrote: Readers will laugh at Mitzvah’s zany misadventures,…Rouss uses Mitzvah’s humorous interpretations of the celebrations and his reactions to…

Gretchen was a little dog we rescued at a local street fair. We were told that she was a Jack Russell-Dachshund mix, which made sense, but we would never know for sure – the only thing we were sure of was that she was a mutt. She was the silliest…