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40 pp.
| Simon/Wiseman |
June, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4169-7481-9$15.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Pascal Lemaitre.
A pet dog expresses his devotion to the girl who owns him by enumerating the ways he would protect her--from deflecting a meteor with a baseball bat to calming the sea with a raised paw. The unembellished cartoon drawings enjoy plenty of white space, which emphasize the hero's pluck and helps tone down the text's sentimentality.