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Summary: Funny and moving...the perfect book!
Review: As someone involved with dog rescue, it was easy to "recognize" all of the dogs and their situations. Dogs (and cats) end up at pounds and shelters by the MILLIONS each year for reasons as diverse as "I'm moving", to "I didn't know they would shed". And sadly, the majority of these dogs end up being put to death. In this wonderful book, Mr. Breathed brings attention to the plight of these creatures while entertaining, fabulously! I recommend this for every animal lover and Berkeley Breathed fan.
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Summary: SUPERB...Berkeley Is A Genius again and again! Ages 3 - 150
Review: Been an enormous fan of the man for years. Bloom County was epic, a force in the papers that left little else. I've always been amazed at how he's carried the texture and grace of the comic strip to book form, and he has once again. Going far beyond typical illustration, he's evolved the art form into it's next phase...awesome!!This book is incredible. I said astounding and I mean it, as even I didn't intend to be as moved as I was. There's a thinly veiled metaphor here, and hits its mark completely. Thank you so much, Mr. Berkeley, for once again raising the bar high above the rest. You'll always occupy that space with Shel Silverstein and his like. For all ages, a comedic, emotional masterpiece.
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Summary: SUPERB...Berkeley Is A Genius again and again! Ages 3 - 150
Review: Been an enormous fan of the man for years. Bloom County was epic, a force in the papers that left little else. I've always been amazed at how he's carried the texture and grace of the comic strip to book form, and he has once again. Going far beyond typical illustration, he's evolved the art form into it's next phase...awesome!! This book is incredible. I said astounding and I mean it, as even I didn't intend to be as moved as I was. There's a thinly veiled metaphor here, and hits its mark completely. Thank you so much, Mr. Berkeley, for once again raising the bar high above the rest. You'll always occupy that space with Shel Silverstein and his like. For all ages, a comedic, emotional masterpiece.
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Summary: beautiful!!
Review: Everyone who had ever owned a "flawed" animal of any kind should have a copy of this beautiful tribute! The artwork is extraordinary and the rhymes whimsical. Berkely Breathed is magical!
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Summary: Perfect
Review: I bought this book for myself because I love Berke Breathed's art first, and am a dog lover second. This beautiful, whimsical and charming book made me laugh and pulled my heart strings enough for me to purchase 4 more copies and give them as gifts to my friends who also have dogs of their own, flawed or otherwise. Wonderful for kids of all ages.
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Summary: Perfect
Review: I bought this book for myself because I love Berke Breathed's art first, and am a dog lover second. This beautiful, whimsical and charming book made me laugh and pulled my heart strings enough for me to purchase 4 more copies and give them as gifts to my friends who also have dogs of their own, flawed or otherwise. Wonderful for kids of all ages.
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Summary: Could a book of cartoons win Berke another Pulizter?
Review: I picked this up in the bookstore the other day because I'm a big Berke Breathed fan. After glancing at the first page or two, I was drawn in and carried the book over to a nearby chair and read it straight through. I laughed and cried, then went home and ordered copies for all the animal lovers on my Christmas list. This is one of the funniest and, ultimately, most touching books I've read in a long time. Buy it.
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Summary: Could a book of cartoons win Berke another Pulizter?
Review: I picked this up in the bookstore the other day because I'm a big Berke Breathed fan. After glancing at the first page or two, I was drawn in and carried the book over to a nearby chair and read it straight through. I laughed and cried, then went home and ordered copies for all the animal lovers on my Christmas list. This is one of the funniest and, ultimately, most touching books I've read in a long time. Buy it.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: My kids are all grown up, but I grabbed this off the new acquisitions shelf at the local library because the pictures were so great. And then we spent an evening at home with a bunch of fully grown, respectable (sort of) adults admiring the illustrations. It's written for a dog shelter in Piddleton, Vermont, and the poems contributed by the poetry club of that aspiring metropolis aren't at all bad. But the whole concept of these flawed dogs and the illustrations are just brilliant. Being a flawed dog myself, albeit of a different species, I appreciated the implied permission to get on with my life in spite of it.
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Summary: Berkerly is God
Review: Okay, maybe my review title is a bit over the top, but forgive me. Bloom County was very important to me while in high school.
What a collection of misfits Berkerly collected here. Dogs too large, too winkled, too much fur, and some species-identity issues. What they all have in common though is they lacked a person who saw there true value: pets give total and unconditional devotion to their owners.
It is a sad fact of life that many would be pet owners are fine with the concept of a pet, but can't handle the reality of one. If there is any theme to this book it is to ensure that once you bring a pet home be ready to commit to it. My wife and I just brought in our third dog, now 13 weeks, it's a energtic bundle of fur and teeth that seems to delight in making puddles, but there is no way that Tess will ever end up Piddleton "Last Chance" Dog Pound.
And I highly recommend that every pet owner find the Piddleton shelter near them and go see in them what Berkeley saw in the animals he featured. Then take one of those animals home with you.
Oh, this book also makes a great baby shower gift.
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