Pippo: A Little Dog Finds a Home - Hardcover

Langen, Annette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789200716 ISBN 13: 9780789200716

Publisher: Abbeville Pr, 1995

Synopsis

A young dachshund describes how he cares for his human family, even though they don't play with sticks or like interesting smells, and tells how they found him and brought him home when he was abandoned by his previous family because he behaved like a puppyA young dachshund describes how he cares for his human family and tells how they found him and brought him home when he was abandoned by his previous family because he behaved like a puppy

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

This maudlin account of an abandoned puppy taken in by a loving family is a tale only a sentimentalist could love. Pippo, as the pup is known, tells of being snatched rudely from his mother and given as a present to a boy, mistreated ("'Come here?now!' meant it was finally time to take a walk outside"), being left in the wintry woods ("they threw a little stick.... but when I returned proudly with the stick clenched in my teeth, I was completely alone") and eventually rescued by kindhearted folks who take him into their "people-kennel." Life improves immeasurably for the grateful Pippo, who earnestly describes how "I look after my family." Watercolors depict Pippo (allegedly a dachshund) as a generic pup; Pippo's pudgy body and bulbous feet may be stuffed-animal cute, but they're indistinct compared to the more realistic sketches of people. Four wan foldouts, including one of a miserable Pippo at the bottom of the mean family's cellar stairs, halfheartedly court the pop-up book audience. Ages 4-8.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abbeville Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0789200716
• ISBN 13: 9780789200716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Leberer Sigrid, Leberer Sven