Mister Dog (Little Golden Book Classics)

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Summary: We love Crispin's Crispian!
Review: I knew this would be a good book, when I saw it was written by Margaret Wise Brown. It proved to be true. I immediately fell in love with Crispin's Crispian, and his little home and life. The illustrations are charming. The story tugs at your heart upon seeing a little boy all by himself, fishing.... But you have to read the rest to see what happens. Don't go into this story with too much of an analytical mindset. It is just a wonderful children's story, that will be read again and again.
It would make a wonderful bed time story, as it is happy and magical in a way. It definitely has an old fashioned sweetness that I just love. I am just thrilled that Golden Books have decided to release some of their old classics. I was starting to worry their for some time, when I had a hard time finding Golden Books like these in the stores. I loved it, and would highly recommend it.

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Summary: Ive looked EVERYWHERE for this book~!
Review: I cant belive I finally found this book~!
I didnt know this was called Mister Dog I just remebered "Crispin's Crispin" the dog who belonged ot himself...
~ my mother in law gave me a copy of a book she'd read to her son all his childhood his Fav book with collected stories IIustrated by Garth with this story in it and I then began to read it to my 3 year old son til it fell apart. This book was my sons Fav also too whom is now 17 and I have been looking everywhere for it for years.
I wanted to be able to read it to my daughter who is now almost 12 becasue we named our dog Crispin after Mister Dog~!
It was the only name he'd come to out of every name we thought of! I thought that was so Ironic considering how he looked just like Mister Dog!
wonder how many people remeber this story and named thier dogs after Mister dog!
so glad we can still get these things Garth is the all time best IIustrator for children becasue of the humanity tenderness and expressions he catchs in animals.
There is so much love and light in everything he draws. It would be tragic ot see ANY of his art buried and lost in time.
enjoy~!

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Summary: A book to grow up by
Review: I first read this book to my son when he was about 5. He loved the illustrations and laughed like crazy at the pictures of the dogs with their tongues lolling out of their mouths. We continued to read this book for many years. Now my son is 22 and he really does belong to himself. I asked him recently if he had patterned his life on the ideas in Mister Dog. He didn't even have to think before he confirmed what I always knew. This book's emphasis on self reliance and love for another is just that powerful. A must!!!

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Summary: A Stangely Interesting Book
Review: My two-year old daughter--an avid "reader"--cannot get enough of this book. It's the first book that she's ever asked for over and over again on a continuous loop.
In a nutshell, Mister Dog (aka Crispin's Crispian)--who belongs to no one--befriends a little boy who belongs to no one and they decide to live together in the dog's 2-story doghouse. Don't even try to reason the story, but at [$$$] you can't go wrong. And besides, what's not to like about a pipe-smoking, straw hat wearing dog?

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Summary: Still loving Crispin's Crispian after 40 years
Review: This book has been one of my favorites for years, so I was delighted that Golden re-released it this spring. (I've located abridged versions in anthologies, but here the story is intact.) This dog "who belongs to himself" and "dreams his own dreams" won my heart at an early age and stuck with me. Crispin's Crispian is both self-reliant and connected to others -- a terrific combination. Like his work in other books (including "Charlotte's Web," the Little House titles, and "Ride A Purple Pelican"), Garth Williams' illustrations are outstanding.

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Summary: Still loving Crispin's Crispian after 40 years
Review: This book has been one of my favorites for years, so I was delighted that Golden re-released it this spring. (I've located abridged versions in anthologies, but here the story is intact.) This dog "who belongs to himself" and "dreams his own dreams" won my heart at an early age and stuck with me. Crispin's Crispian is both self-reliant and connected to others -- a terrific combination. Like his work in other books (including "Charlotte's Web," the Little House titles, and "Ride A Purple Pelican"), Garth Williams' illustrations are outstanding.