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Cullen, Lynn , Cullen, Lynn

Little Scraggly Hair: A Dog on Noah's Ark

32 pp. | Holiday | October, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-8234-1772-7 $$16.95

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers & Jacqueline Rogers. Based on the folktale explaining "how the dog got its wet nose," this story has Noah building an ark in Appalachia. The illustrations, though cheerful, fail to match the text's description of the ark, which is supposedly so crowded that the dog has to keep his nose hanging outside for forty days. Nevertheless, the text's rhythmic language and Southern mountain dialect are inviting and convincing.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth