People call you a “Dog Person” and you kind of like that.

It’s no reflection on you, personally, of course. That moniker just says to the world that you have a love for anything canine, that you probably have a few pups of your own, and that you’ve never known a dog you didn’t like. You probably also know a lot of other Dog People and maybe a few Cat People and Horse People, too.

Author Alice Walker would never cotton to anything so commonplace. No, Walker is a Chicken Person, and in her new memoir “The Chicken Chronicles”, she writes about her newfound friends and what they taught her about life.

Alice Walker had never seen a chicken before.

But, of course, she had. As a child growing up in Georgia, it was her responsibility to chase down Sunday dinner. She’d collected plenty of eggs in her lifetime, too; some for food and some for music lessons.

So many little girls dream about being a princess, apparently even Golden Retrievers.

Geared for elementary readers, Yalu and the Puppy Room is the first in a series of books about a little Golden Retriever named Yalu.  Yalu is one of many dogs in the “Puppy Room” who need a good family to call her own.  She finds herself feeling rejected and all alone when puppy after puppy is chosen – except her.  She wonders if she’ll ever get to live her dream of being somebody’s princess…

Soon all of her brothers and sisters have been taken home with their new families, leaving Yalu feeling more lonely than before.  Deciding she has had about enough of her kennel life, Yalu decides to take things into her own paws and choose her family, instead of waiting for them to pick her.