![]() ![]() He spots a frog sitting on a rock, and the frog asks, “What are you doing?” The story begins in Spring, with a dog enjoying his first romp in the country. ![]() And so, after months of resistance, I picked up the book and flipped through the pages.Ĭity Dog, Country Frog is a beautiful book. Clearly, ‘they’ were wrong, and I was right.Ī few days after Christmas I found myself in a bookstore, the cash faucet still dripping after a month of unbridled spending, and there they were, those watery, plaintive, puppy-dog eyes. And yet…the book kept showing up in the ubiquitous year end ‘best of’ lists, and of late, as a front runner for the Caldecott medal, America’s highest honour for children’s picture book illustration. Not a fan of this style of overtly sentimental illustration. Week after week City Dog, Country Frog remained unbrowsed on the shelves of bookstores I frequented, a few uncharitable (and unspoken) thoughts directed at the loosely painted watercolour of a dog sporting a frog on its head. My usual infallible judgement with regard to covers has failed me, and I have fallen hard and fast for a book I’d previously dismissed. And in this case, I will even sit corrected. ![]()
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