"At first Mollie could count only four or five, but as Sheba cleaned each one, Mollie counted six, then seven, then eight, nine and finally TEN wriggling, noisy, hungry puppies. Then Mollie noticed something else-a tiny scrap of scraggly black fur tucked into the far corner of the pen." When eleven puppies are born on Mollie's family's boat, chaos ensues. Mollie's mother wonders what to do, but Mollie has an idea. She will host a tea party in order to find homes for Charlotte, Heidi, Stuart, Margalo, Max, Pippi, Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and Tigger. But Wilbur Wilbur is special. Not just any home will do for him. When Sarah N. Harvey was ten, she played ping-pong with an African prince. When she was nineteen, she lived on a boat with a big dog that had eleven puppies. Rose Cowles has a big black dog named Rosie. She loves animals and can paint eleven puppies and a dog over and over again so that you can recognize them on every page. "I love painting," she says. "It keeps me happy and that's the best gift I can give to my kids." It's a pretty good gift for everyone else as well Rose also illustrated The F Team for Orca.