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99 pp.
| Groundwood
| April, 2002
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TradeISBN 0-88899-461-3$$14.95
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PaperISBN 0-88899-469-9$$4.95
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1-3
Illustrated by
Elsa Myotte.
Berta the dachshund lives with nine-year-old Marjory and her parents on their hobby farm. Told from Marjory's inquisitive, matter-of-fact viewpoint, and never resorting to anthropomorphism, the chapter book follows Berta as she helps the family care for a newborn lamb rejected by its mother. Grainy pencil drawings capture the purposefulness in Berta's expression as she nurtures her fleecy charge and, months later, a litter of her own.