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Day, Alexandra , Edens, Cooper

Darby, the Special-Order Pup

32 pp. | Dial | September, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2496-9 $$15.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Alexandra Day. The Bell family is at wit's end when their English bull terrier puppy chews everything in sight. Then, after the cliff their house is built on erodes and collapses, Darby chews through the wreckage to save the family. The text--dialogue and the occasional "That night..."--makes abrupt transitions, and the story stretches credulity at the end, but Day's realistic watercolors are highly expressive.
Reviewer: Patricia Riley

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