A homeless unloved pup becomes one lucky dog in this tender picture book.
Dog lovers everywhere will recognize the very specific details that bring McDuff to life, from the familiar lift of a paw in the rain to the frightened eyes peeking out over the car dashboard..
Everyone had always told him to go away.\'\' Jeffers\'s illustrations brilliantly capture a bygone art deco America in Lucy and Fred\'s cozy home, a virtual-reality nostalgia unfaded.
She describes his joy in being accepted with these words: \'\'No one had ever asked him to come in.
Wells knows just the right words to describe McDuff\'s emotions in ways that little readers will identify with and understand.
Newly adopted, McDuff-named that night for their favorite shortbread biscuit-is last seen happily asleep on his back on a pillow next to Fred and Lucy\'s bed.
After they feed him rice pudding and bathe him, they realize that they cannot bear to return him to the pound. - Booklist No one wanted the nameless little dog wandering the streets looking unsuccessfully for food and shelter until kindhearted Fred and Lucy, a young couple, take him inside.
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.
Readers have commented that they loved reading McDuff\'s story to their children, and, in due course, to their grandchildren, reading the book over and over, until, as one reader wrote, the original copy was worn to shreds.
McDuff Moves In has been loved for its heartwarming and lively story and its magical recreation of a simpler era. --starred Publishers Weekly Review The Gryphon Press is delighted to bring this classic children\'s picture back into print for a new generation of children. . .
A homeless unloved pup becomes one lucky dog in this tender picture book
