![]() Lucja said they want the book to inspire people, and they have been hearing from readers young and old that it does. The original story of him finding Gobi, and their eventual reunion in China, made news around the world and prompted Leonard to write the book about the small dog with a big heart. Leonard is an ultra marathoner who found and befriended the stray dog during a race in China’s brutal Gobi Desert in 2016, only to have the dog go missing in a Chinese city before it could head home with him to Edinburgh, Scotland. “I really like that dog, and how much the man traveled to find her,” said Mojica, who went home with her own signed copy of the book after winning a raffle. ![]() ![]() She also got to pet and pose for pictures with the Chihuahua/Shih Tzu mix. So Mojica, who like Gobi is 8, and her mom, Rafaela Gomez of Reading, stuck around to hear Leonard tell their incredible story. Instead of just lending her the bestseller “Finding Gobi, The True Story of One Little Dog’s Big Journey” that she came for, the library staff told her that they were hosting a presentation by the author, Dion Leonard, and that Gobi was there with him. ![]() Zoey Mojica came to the Reading Public Library’s main branch Saturday looking to borrow a book, but she found something much better. ![]()
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