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183 pp.
| Candlewick |
February, 2004 |
TradeISBN 0-7636-2421-7$$15.99
(3)
4-6
Translated by Sarah Adams.
This French import recounts the education of an ugly little dog and how he must then educate the humans he lives with. The omniscient narrator fills the reader in on the behavior of both dogs and humans, and the tone is melancholy but, in the end, triumphant and loving.