National award-winning author, columnist, and former Chicago reporter, humorist Dave Jaffe has written for online, print, television, and radio. Creative, clever, witty - these are traits that kept Dave in detention for most of the eighth grade. But as an adult, those skills led to multiple award-winning columns, commentary, and books.Winner of the 2021 International Book Awards for Humor and the Indies Today 2019 Best Humor Book Award, Dave's book "Sleeping between Giants, Book I: Budleigh, the Early Year" explored the highly successful, though often confusing relationship between Canines and Giants. Drawn from Dave's blog "Sleeping between Giants: Life, If You Could Call It That, With A Terrier" that won the 2018 and 2017 National Society of Newspaper Columnists first-place award for humor blogs, SbG introduces us to Budleigh, a homeless terrier Dave and his wife rescued, although why anyone would still puzzles them. Newly adopted Budleigh bonds quickly with his Giants and as their first shelter dog, proves no more a challenge than if they'd both pursued medical degrees.Dave's work has appeared in a wide range of outlets, from HumorOutcasts, the San Francisco Chronicle, and HuffPost to National Public Radio, Chicago Parent, and The National Lampoon. He even wrote sketches for Bozo the Clown, although a merciful History has forgotten the "Bozo Juggles Invisible Chainsaws" bit. His humor columns and commentary have twice been honored with Peter A. Lisagor awards by the Chicago Headline Club, and with the Parenting Publications of America Gold Award for Humor.In the 2022 sequel, "Sleeping between Giants, Book II - Ask a Terrier: Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog," Budleigh, the Terrier with 'Tude, is back; this time dispensing crucial advice to Giants and Canines on everything from space travel and sniffing Covid, to giving a TED Talk and shopping for purses.Through essays, cartoons, and comic strips created by the author, learn what's going on in the mind of your Canine and why it's just as odd as what going on in yours.
