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<\/a>The Calcasieu Parish Reading Council President Susan Gardebled nominated the book for the Louisiana Reading Association\u2019s Celebrate Literacy award. Crochet won the Celebrate Literacy Award for Calcasieu Parish in May and went on to represent the parish at the state level and won again. The state level award is the LRA Literacy Award.<\/p>\nThe book is also a finalist in the 2016 Indie Book Awards.<\/p>\n
Crochet is a member of the Southwest Louisiana Children\u2019s Book Writers\u2019 and Illustrators\u2019 Guild and the Dr. Dogs Pet Therapy Team.<\/p>\n
After working many years in the Calcasieu Parish District Attorney\u2019s Office, Lydia now spends her time free lance writing for Lagniappe Magazine and visiting hospitals, libraries and special events with Jeanie, who is a certified therapy dog.<\/p>\n
Jeanie is a three-legged therapy dog and the star of this children\u2019s book. The book reminds readers that anything is possible and it\u2019s okay to be different. Jeanie shares a message of courage and acceptance, choosing to focus on the things she can do instead of her limitations. \u201cI may be different. But I am complete. I can do most things like dogs with four feet!\u201d<\/p>\n
Jeanie is an adopted rescue. She was found in a rural area outside of Lake Charles in 2007 when she was five or six months old. She had a deformed and crippled front leg that made it difficult for her to walk. Jeanie was brought to a local vet\u2019s office where they removed the leg, spayed her and listed her for adoption with a local animal rescue organization.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Jeanie is a mix of Pomeranian, Yorkie, Poodle and Papillion. When she\u2019s not spreading smiles on social media, Jeanie enjoys hanging out with her colleagues on the Dr. Dog\u2019s Pet Therapy team. She visits hospitals and nursing homes, where she brings joy and hope to those who need it most, especially fellow amputees. She\u2019s involved in a reading program, in which she listens as children read their favorite books to her at the local library. Jeanie also works with the Children\u2019s Advocacy Center, where she comforts abused children while they are questioned by forensic investigators. This is her favorite job, as she knows exactly why she\u2019s there and who needs comforting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lydia Crochet is a children\u2019s book author who lives in Lake Charles with her husband, Ray, and rescue dog, Jeanie. Her book \u201cJeanie the 3-Legged Dog; I Don\u2019t Need Four Feet\u201d has won two literacy awards this year from the Louisiana Reading Assoc. The Calcasieu Parish Reading Council President Susan Gardebled nominated the book for [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,1188,1189,678],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>The Calcasieu Parish Reading Council President Susan Gardebled nominated the book for the Louisiana Reading Association\u2019s Celebrate Literacy award. Crochet won the Celebrate Literacy Award for Calcasieu Parish in May and went on to represent the parish at the state level and won again. The state level award is the LRA Literacy Award.<\/p>\n