How Smudge Came has won many book awards. These book awards are: Mr. Christie's Book Award, American Bookseller, BC Book Prize Winner, The Canadian Book Center Choice.

This story is by Nan Gregory and the pictures are by Ron Lightburn. The main characters are Cindy and Smudge.

The good thing about this story is Smudge, the dog, finds a new home and finds a girl named Cindy who loves Smudge a lot and does a lot to try to keep him by hiding him and bringing him to work.

If I had to rate this book out of ten I would give it a ten because it kept me reading it!