This is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2013 by Kate Klimo
Cover and interior illustrations copyright © 2013 by Tim Jessell
Photographs courtesy of the Natural History Museum, Bern, Switzerland, this page , this page , and this page
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Klimo, Kate.
Barry / by Kate Klimo; illustrated by Tim Jessell. — 1st ed.
pages cm. — (Dog diaries; #3)
Summary: Barry der Menschenretter, a Saint Bernard dog, reflects back on his life in the early 1800s at the Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, where he rescued some forty people from avalanches. Includes facts about the breed and the hospice.
eISBN: 978-0-449-81282-2
1. Saint Bernard dog—Juvenile fiction. [1. Saint Bernard dog—Fiction. 2. Rescue dogs— Fiction. 3. Dogs—Fiction. 4. Avalanches—Fiction. 5. Hospice du Grand-St-Bernard (Bourg-Saint-Pierre, Switzerland)—Fiction. 6. Alps, Swiss (Switzerland)—History—19th century—Fiction. 7. Switzerland—History—1789–1815—Fiction.]
I. Jessell, Tim, illustrator. II. Title.
PZ10.3.K686 Bar 2013 [Fic]—dc23 2012047455
Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment
and celebrates the right to read.
v3.1
The author and editor would like to thank Marc Nussbaumer, curator, Natural History Museum, Bern, Switzerland, for his assistance in the preparation of this book.
For Alan Armstrong, who likes big dogs
—K.K.
The courage and steadfastness of dogs
to their duty is hopefully inspirational
to their two-legged partners.
—T.J.
L ITTLE B EAR
My name is Barry der Menschenretter. That’s MEN-shun-RET-tuh. A big name, you say? Well, in life, I was a big dog. If you want to see me with your own eyes, go to the Natural History Museum in Bern, Switzerland. There you will see my stuffed body in a glass case. I apologize in advance for my appearance. They repaired me and patched me and added fur and stuffing in 1923, raising my head to show me in a less humble pose. In spite of all theirefforts, I no longer look very much like myself. But perhaps you can see something of the original dog in me if you look carefully and imagine.
I come from a long line of big dogs called mastiffs. Mastiffs marched and fought with the Roman army in ancient times. Even before that, there were mastiffs in a faraway place called Tibet. In modern times, my kind of mastiff is called a Saint Bernard, but in the year 1800, when my story begins, there were no such things as Saint Bernards. Dogs such as I were called
Alpenhunde
, a German word that means “dogs of the Alps”—the high mountain range in Switzerland, a country in western Europe. People also called us butchers’ dogs, perhaps because we ate so much meat every day that only a butcher could afford to keep us.
But the most common name for us dogs was bari.
Bari
means “little bear” in Swiss German.That’s what my name means: Little Bear. With my thick fur and big, padded feet—like a bear—I was well suited to living in the cold.
The place in the Alps where I lived is so high there is snow on the ground almost all year long. It is 8,000 feet
Text copyright © 2013 by Kate Klimo
Cover and interior illustrations copyright © 2013 by Tim Jessell
Photographs courtesy of the Natural History Museum, Bern, Switzerland, this page , this page , and this page
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Random House and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Visit us on the Web! randomhouse.com/kids
Educators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at RHTeachersLibrarians.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Klimo, Kate.
Barry / by Kate Klimo; illustrated by Tim Jessell. — 1st ed.
pages cm. — (Dog diaries; #3)
Summary: Barry der Menschenretter, a Saint Bernard dog, reflects back on his life in the early 1800s at the Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, where he rescued some forty people from avalanches. Includes facts about the breed and the hospice.
eISBN: 978-0-449-81282-2
1. Saint Bernard dog—Juvenile fiction. [1. Saint Bernard dog—Fiction. 2. Rescue dogs— Fiction. 3. Dogs—Fiction. 4. Avalanches—Fiction. 5. Hospice du Grand-St-Bernard (Bourg-Saint-Pierre, Switzerland)—Fiction. 6. Alps, Swiss (Switzerland)—History—19th century—Fiction. 7. Switzerland—History—1789–1815—Fiction.]
I. Jessell, Tim, illustrator. II. Title.
PZ10.3.K686 Bar 2013 [Fic]—dc23 2012047455
Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment
and celebrates the right to read.
v3.1
The author and editor would like to thank Marc Nussbaumer, curator, Natural History Museum, Bern, Switzerland, for his assistance in the preparation of this book.
For Alan Armstrong, who likes big dogs
—K.K.
The courage and steadfastness of dogs
to their duty is hopefully inspirational
to their two-legged partners.
—T.J.
L ITTLE B EAR
My name is Barry der Menschenretter. That’s MEN-shun-RET-tuh. A big name, you say? Well, in life, I was a big dog. If you want to see me with your own eyes, go to the Natural History Museum in Bern, Switzerland. There you will see my stuffed body in a glass case. I apologize in advance for my appearance. They repaired me and patched me and added fur and stuffing in 1923, raising my head to show me in a less humble pose. In spite of all theirefforts, I no longer look very much like myself. But perhaps you can see something of the original dog in me if you look carefully and imagine.
I come from a long line of big dogs called mastiffs. Mastiffs marched and fought with the Roman army in ancient times. Even before that, there were mastiffs in a faraway place called Tibet. In modern times, my kind of mastiff is called a Saint Bernard, but in the year 1800, when my story begins, there were no such things as Saint Bernards. Dogs such as I were called
Alpenhunde
, a German word that means “dogs of the Alps”—the high mountain range in Switzerland, a country in western Europe. People also called us butchers’ dogs, perhaps because we ate so much meat every day that only a butcher could afford to keep us.
But the most common name for us dogs was bari.
Bari
means “little bear” in Swiss German.That’s what my name means: Little Bear. With my thick fur and big, padded feet—like a bear—I was well suited to living in the cold.
The place in the Alps where I lived is so high there is snow on the ground almost all year long. It is 8,000 feet
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