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| Little Moon Dog | 
 enlarge | Author: Helen Ward
Creator: Wayne Anderson
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 940133
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0525477276
EAN: 9780525477273
ASIN: 0525477276
Publication Date: March 15, 2007
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Product Description
The Man in the Moon and his Little Moon Dog live peacefully on the moon. Until a busload of rowdy touristsfairies!arrives. Moon Dog ventures out to meet them and has marvelous fun. But one day, he wakes to find the fickle fairies have led him astray, far from his cozy home and dearest friend. Will he ever find his way back to the moon? Under the luminous beauty of a fantastic moon, a little dogs quest for adventure sparks a quirky, heartwarming tale of friendship and the true meaning of home . . . wherever it may be.
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 Beautiful and strange November 2, 2007
A beautiful and strange story about a dog who gets distracted by some superficial tourists to the point where he is abducted by them. Quirky pictures and inventive language are the highlights..
 Little Moon Dog May 23, 2007
Have you ever lost your dog? Have you ever looked everywhere for him, missed him, and taken drastic measures to get him home? Then you can probably relate to The Man in the Moon when his BEST friend, Little Moon Dog, runs away. (Wow, so reminiscent of a Reading Rainbow review.)
It's summer time on the moon, time for The Man in the Moon to lock his doors and tuck in to a season of reading because he wants absolutely nothing to do with the strange, summer, up-to-no-good, fickle fairy tourists that visit. Soon, however, Little Moon Dog gets a little bored, sneaks out to play, loses all track of time and finds himself whisked away back home with the STRANGE company. Unfortunately, Little Moon Dog is having too much fun on the nearby planet to notice that his new friends are starting grow tired of him, eventually leaving him to fend for himself. Meanwhile, The Man in the Moon searches high and low for his buddy and comes up with a plan, an adventure "for it was TIME to FIND his friend." Don't worry. Happy endings come bounding of the shady woods and Anderson's stunning artwork leads us HOME.
Although I should be ashamed of myself, I haven't ready any of this duo's other picture books (Tin Forest, Finding Christmas, The Dragon Machine), but if they're anywhere near as captivating as Little Moon Dog, I'm hooked. I adore Ward's whimsical word choices "rhumoonbarb" "seven shades of trouble" and I want to live in the soft glow of Anderson's whirligig-smashed-fairies artwork. This is one of those books where the story steeps in you and dances a bit with art (art, not just pictures) both delicious and charming.
(for Critique's Sake): I must admit I was drawn first by the pictures rather than the story. The capitalizations bothered me and I didn't care for the neat-and-tidy moral of the story on the last page. But I find the more I read and review, the more practical I become. I ask myself "Self? Were those things dealbreakers? Did they ruin the story?" And, in this case, of course it doesn't. I felt for The Man in the Moon and his loss. The capitalizations stopped being annoying and just became playfully off-kilter. These are the things that make for an interesting story that kids will read over and over, not to figure out points of confusion, but to bathe a little longer in the curiosities.
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