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In a heartfelt first-person text, a young dog tells of initial mixed feelings about its adoptive single-parent mom (a cat); spare digital illustrations make the pair's species-specific differences plain to see. In the end, the narrator is comforted: "we are learning how to be a family." A hopeful, satisfying treatment of older-child adoption that speaks to the universal need for love and acceptance.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2016
32 pp.
| Child's Play
| September, 2014
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TradeISBN 978-1-84643652-9$16.99
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Sacré bleu! Someone's been stealing the cherries off Chef Armand's pastries. He catches the thief, who resembles a blue porcupine (with cherry-topped quills). Thanks to some magic (which seems like a cop-out, plotting-wise), the adversaries become friends--and business partners. The story is like a fancy dessert: the largely whipped-cream-white art is frothy and appealing, but the calories seem empty.