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Title: Swollobog by Alastair Taylor ISBN: 0-618-04348-9 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 26 March, 2001 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Omnivorous canine charms
Comment: Alastair Taylor crafts a wry but overwritten tale of a greedy dachshund with the unusual name Swollobog (read the opening pages to find our the origin of this fantastic moniker),a dog that eats, well, anything and everything.

The prose sometimes seems a bit much, the plot veers almost to the brink even for kids, but the illustrations are a delight. Sometimes the exaggerations carry a page, sometimes the subtle rendering of an expression.

This story is good fare for those 9 years and younger (as long as they are not so suggestible that they try some of Swollobog's eating techniques), but the drawings are for all ages.

Rating: 5
Summary: thank goodness for amazon
Comment: This book is hard to find in bookstores - in fact I've never seen it. What a loss to the general reading-to-their-children public. I must have read it two hundred times and my kids still love it. And so do I! The British author sneaks enough subtle wit into this story of a pathologically greedy dachshund to satisfy the most jaded bedtime reader, and the humor is as often in the delightfully laid-back drawings as in the laconic prose. Note to publisher - distribute more widely. Note to author - hurry up and write another one.

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