McDuff Moves In
by Rosemary Wells
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Pub Date 15 Oct 2019 | Archive Date 15 Mar 2020
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Description
“A homeless unloved pup becomes one lucky dog in this tender picture book. . .”
—starred Publishers Weekly Review
The Gryphon Press is delighted to bring this classic children’s picture from the dream team of author Rosemary Wells and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Susan Jeffers back into print.
Set in the 1930s, a little dog bounces out of a dogcatcher’s truck one night and searches the neighborhood looking for a home. Fred and Lucy, a young couple, take him in, and bathe and feed him, but decide they are too busy to keep him.
After they set out for the dog pound, they realize that they can’t give him away. At home again, during a late night celebration of adoption, they name him McDuff after their favorite brand of shortbread biscuit.
New in this Edition:
*New back page featuring Lucy's Vanilla Rice Pudding recipe
*Special foreword from author Rosemary Wells
* New back page of pet adoption resources
Wells knows just the right words to describe McDuff's emotions in ways that little readers will identify with and understand. She describes his joy in being accepted with these words: ''No one had ever asked him to come in. Everyone had always told him to go away.''
A Note From the Publisher
The Gryphon Press publishes picture books celebrating the human-animal bond.
Our mission is to publish beautifully illustrated children’s picture books about the vital issues that animals–domestic, wild, and farmed– face, and to present those issues in such a way that children gain insights into and develop empathy for every animal life. All our books are intended to illuminate the struggles that non-human animals face in modern society and to strengthen the human-animal bond.
We are excited to add McDuff to our community of animal protagonists.
Our mission is to publish beautifully illustrated children’s picture books about the vital issues that animals–domestic, wild, and farmed– face, and to present those issues in such a way that children gain insights into and develop empathy for every animal life. All our books are intended to illuminate the struggles that non-human animals face in modern society and to strengthen the human-animal bond.
We are excited to add McDuff to our community of animal protagonists.
Advance Praise
"Living creatures do not get any cuter than McDuff,. . . Jeffers's illustrations are like old photographs of a bygone America made new--everything from the zinnias to the bathrobes is like virtual-reality nostalgia, old but unfaded." –The New York Times
"This collaboration by Wells and Jeffers is as sweet, substantial, and comforting as that bowl of rice pudding and will suit the many children who like stories with simple words, clear story lines, and happily-ever-after-endings."
–Booklist
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780940719422 |
| PRICE | US$17.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 25 |
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