In the Powell River Peak, reporter Ted Durnin checks in with Glenn Murray about the newest release in his Walter the Farting Dog series, “a sales phenomenon among children’s books.” As Durnin details in his article, Murray is on a tour in which he does more than just appear and read—he has instead developed a program “for reluctant readers” called “Reading With Rover” whereby he “pairs therapy dogs with children to help them with reading aloud. Murray, a career educator, says reading to a dog is a way to practise, and with practice comes improvement.” He tells Durnin, “They don’t mind reading to dogs.” Durnin also notes that, “His use of ‘the F word’—farting—in the title is deliberate,” and Murray uses it to open discussion of “power words and when and how to use them with his young audiences.”