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Dinkey Donkey Doo

Jack loves a lot of things: his family, his toys, Halloween. But there are two things he loves a lot. Hockey and his donkey.

When Jack has a hard time healing from a fall, he goes to the hospital and finds out that he has leukemia, a cancer of the blood. Though his family and his doctors are all there for him, Jack misses being able to visit the farm. That's when a donkey named Dinky Donkey Doo comes to stay at his house! Over three years, Jack battles cancer with Dinky right by his side, providing support and life-long memories to make the battle a little less scary each day.

Based on the author's son's own life, Dinky Donkey Doo will help young readers learn about cancer, hockey, and the positive impact of therapy animals for kids.

David P. Kavanaugh

With thirty-plus years in K-12 education and management consulting, David Kavanaugh has learned that serving his clients is about communication and empathy. In fact, it's all about storytelling, whether by sharing a vision or illuminating someone's potential to executives and watching them thrive.

Dave has come to realize that he's been a character himself in his family's greatest journey, one taken by many but not often shared: an odyssey of pediatric cancer. His beloved wife and two grown sons made the daily, harrowing Barents Sea crossing of physical, mental, and emotional challenges for several years. They are his greatest joy, the ones who laughed at his stories and encouraged him to put them to paper for his grandchildren to read someday.

Inspiration and strength, he now knows, can come from the youngest and most vulnerable among us, and that no matter how short our time together, we are indelibly changed by those who enter our lives, even strangers who smile at us, or others who just take the time to listen. Dave's goal is to leave people a little better than he found them-a lesson he learned from an extraordinary young man and a wise donkey that we lovingly call Dinky Donkey Doo.