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LaRochelle, David

The Best Pet of All

32 pp. | Dutton | May, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-525-47129-4 $$15.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Hanako Wakiyama. When his repeated requests for a dog are denied, a boy asks for a pet dragon. "If you can find a dragon, you can keep it..." his mother says. The dragon he finds behaves badly, and his mother agrees to a dog after the boy tells her "Dragons do not like dogs." The retro-style illustrations lend an old-fashioned look to the slyly entertaining story.
Reviewer: Beth L. Meister

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