But first, just share and enjoy."- Horn Book Magazine (starred review) Excellent messages about family, differences, and friendship are implicit. have minimal yet wonderfully expressive facial details. In Robinson's elegant illustrations, the dogs' basic white forms. "DiPucchio's lively, occasionally direct-address text was made to be read aloud. So they switch back-but that's not the end of the story. But in the delightful read-aloud text by Kelly DiPucchio, Gaston finds he doesn't care for the rough-and-tumble of his bulldog brothers, while Antoinette resists the pink and fluffy trappings of the poodle home. The mix-up is discovered when the poodle and bulldog families both visit the dog park, and the pups decide to switch back. Caldecott Honoree Christian Robinson packs oodles of charm into his deceptively simple painted cartoons of French bulldog Gaston, who feels out of place at home, as does French poodle Antoinette-perhaps because they somehow wound up in each other's families. Just irresistible, for dog lovers of all ages.
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