Give a Dog a Bone - Softcover

Brian Wildsmith

3.5

12 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192722433 ISBN 13: 9780192722430

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1992

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A split-page format enlivens this comic story of a hungry stray who wanders from one end of town to the other looking for a bone, until her misadventures lead her to a happy ending

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From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 1 Wildsmith's inimitable artistic style is evident on every page of this colorful, oversized picture book. He again enlists the clever device of alternating half-page and full-page illustrations that he used in Pelican (1983) and Daisy (1984, both Pantheon). On each half-page are both text and picture, which elucidate and enlarge upon each incident. The story is leisurely and anecdotal, relating the adventures of an appealingly scruffy stray sort-of-terrier as she gamely pursues an elusive bone. Although Stray at times possesses an assortment of bones, she manages to lose all of them. Stray's travels from butcher shop to the dinosaur room of a museum to her "adoption" at last by a newly married couple (she goes after a bone tied to the honeymoon carriage and ends up part of the wedding entourage) offer many opportunities for lavish and lively illustrations. The time frame is a bit confusing, as Stray encounters modern machinery in the streets and at the circus, while the town scenes, people's clothing and the horse and carriage seem to belong to an earlier era. A rather tame but lovely story. Martha Rosen, Edgewood School Library, Scarsdale, N.Y. -
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Lush color and continual surprises in paintings by England's Kate Greenaway Medalist grace the story of a stray mutt, avid for a bone to crunch. Split pages invite kids to make a game of discovering how the dog snatches then loses bone after bone as he frisks through the streets of a medieval community. Wildsmith's sly inventions pile on extra giggles: the pictures include a modern street sweeper that swallows one bone, a tractor that flattens another and more jokey anachronisms in the ancient setting. Then there is the museum where a dinosaur skeleton falls on the stray when he tries to steal its leg. The curious cat who races after the homeless canine to observe the quest is another comic touch. All this japery is crowned by the finale in which the dog is a stray no longer, assured of amassing as many bones as he can gnaw.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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