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A Year with Sully by Renee Patience, a Paws Academy Junior book. Colourful cover with a girl and a boy sitting under a tree that changes from spring to winter, with Sully the puppy between them.

A Year with Sully

A Paws Academy Junior colouring and activity book for children aged 4 to 10

A puppy's first year brings chocolate eggs, hot pavements, picnics, conkers, fireworks, tinsel and a house full of visitors. Each of those comes with something children need to know, and they're often the ones closest to the puppy when it happens.

A Year with Sully walks children through the whole year, from spring flowers to his first birthday. The 16 lessons have an easy page to read together and a big picture of Sully to colour, and the celebrations come from all over the world, from Diwali and Eid to Christmas, Hanukkah and Lunar New Year.

Follow puppy's first year, season by season. Colouring, lessons and puzzles that help children aged 4 to 10 keep their puppy safe and happy through every season and celebration.

So many of the worried calls I get come at the same times of year: fireworks, Christmas, summer heatwaves. Children who know what's coming can help keep the puppy safe, and this book gets them ready.

Inside the book: 99 pages, 16 lessons, 50 puzzles. Print as many times as you like: a puppy year promise, a year chart, a certificate and a fridge poster of the year-round rules.

What's inside

  • 16 lessons in three parts: spring and summer, autumn, and winter

  • A big colouring page for every lesson, with girls and boys all the way through

  • Spring and summer: spring flowers, egg hunts and sweet treats, hot days, picnics and paddling

  • Autumn: back to school, conkers and falling leaves, dark evenings, fireworks and dressing up

  • Winter: cold and wet days, snow, winter celebrations, visitors and puppy's first birthday

  • Five of every puzzle: mazes, word searches, jumbles, dot-to-dots, spot the difference, counting, quizzes, good idea or not, and drawing and design pages

  • A short note for grown-ups on every lesson, and all the answers at the back

What's inside A Year with Sully: three real pages from the book.

Pages to print and keep

  • My puppy year promise

  • A puppy's year chart

  • A Puppy's Year Helper certificate

  • A fridge poster of our year-round rules

Why this book is different

  • Celebrations from lots of countries, because families all over the world use these books

  • Seasons are described, not tied to months, so it works wherever you live

  • Every danger is matched with a job a child can actually do, like counting the eggs after a hunt

  • Sully, the Paws Academy puppy, grows up through the book, just like in the other Junior books

  • Dip in at any time of year: each season stands on its own

Who it's for

Children aged 4 to 10 in a family with a puppy under a year old, families heading into fireworks, holidays or a summer heatwave with a new puppy, and grandparents who host the big family celebrations.

About the author: Renee Patience with her boxer Kookie. Qualified behaviourist and founder of Paws Academy Dog Training & Behaviour, Mayo. Over 30 years training dogs, Dog Trainer of the Year 2025 at the National Ireland Pet Awards, competed at Crufts and Olympia.

What you get

A 99-page A4 PDF, emailed to you straight after checkout. Print it at home, in black and white, as many times as you like for the children in your family.

For children aged 7 and up

Sully's Puppy Quest is my online game course for children. They help Sully the puppy through his first year over 8 levels and 24 short games, with a real-life mission to do with your own puppy (and you right beside them) and a certificate with their name on it for every level they finish. See Sully's Puppy Quest.

A Year with Sully

€9.99Price
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