Dogs with Jobs: The heroic hounds who make a difference - Hardcover

Rowe, Andrea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1761213997 ISBN 13: 9781761213991

Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

Dogs with Jobs is a non-fiction picture book celebrating working dogs – from therapy and companion, to tracking and herding, and search-and-rescue support. They're here to save the day in so many remarkable ways!

Give a bark for the dogs who do. Raise a paw for dogs with professions. Wag your tail for dogs who are trained to help humans out.

For hundreds of years, dogs with jobs have helped us in so many ways. Dogs have dedication, extraordinary noses, extra-special skills to understand commands, the ability to pick up smells and sounds that humans can't, and the power to comfort and communicate with the humans they love. Dogs can do almost anything we ask them to.

About this title

About the Authors

Andrea Rowe is a best-selling, award-winning picture book author. Andrea loves to write stories where characters explore the great outdoors, ponder big questions and move through tricky feelings, which inspire conversations amongst children, families and educators. Her picture book, Jetty Jumping (illustrated by Hannah Sommerville), was awarded the 2022 CBCA Picture Book of the Year – Early Childhood. 
Andrea is also the winner of several Australian short story awards, an ambassador for Australian children’s literature, an Ardoch Youth Foundation Writer In Resident and Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship Foundation mentor, and has been awarded a 2024 May Gibbs Fellowship. 
Andrea loves reading in cosy nooks, where she’s always surrounded by stacks of books.
 

Julia Murray is an illustrator and typographer living in Aotearoa, New Zealand. She won a colouring competition at age 8 and hasn’t looked back – applying her work to everything from book covers to puzzles and beer cans. She has a background designing for publishing, which sparked her love of books. This experience has given her a versatility of style, a strength in combining typography with illustration and a designer’s eye for composition and detail. Julia’s work reflects a love of colour with a touch of femininity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1761213997
• ISBN 13: 9781761213991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Murray Julia
• Number of pages: 48