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32 pp.
| Dial |
May, 2005 |
TradeISBN 0-8037-2809-3$16.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
David Catrow.
A dog keeps finding new places to shake out his wet fur; each time he gets shooed away he cheerfully moves on to the next victims, all of whom have something to do with a wedding. The too-wordy text encroaches on the caricatured art, but only a scrooge wouldn't appreciate the seemingly punch-drunk dog and the book's giddy, cathartic ending.