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Van Leeuwen, Jean

The Strange Adventures of Blue Dog

32 pp. | Dial | May, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-1878-0 $$15.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Marco Ventura. Compared to his usual quiet life as part of a toy farm set, a small wooden dog finds it thrilling to go on excursions via the pocket of the boy who owns him. Though unsettling and not particularly attractive, the hyper-realistic paintings facilitate the book's blurring of fantasy and reality, which peaks when Blue Dog and a live dog, the boy's new pet, exist contentedly side by side.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

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