Mucky Pup's Christmas

From Publishers Weekly

Brown's delicate watercolors are alight with affection and warmth as the fetching, flop-eared hero of Mucky Pup returns just in time to wreak holiday havoc. Banished outdoors for being "helpful" (he calls it sorting the mail, tasting the cake and rearranging the tree; the family calls it ruining all of the above), the penitent pooch spends the night with his barnyard friends, then frolics in his first snow. Kids will like the healthy dose of mischief, especially because all is forgiven in the end. Ages 3-9. (Oct.)
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From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 1-Mucky Pup is trying to be helpful by sorting the mail, tasting the Christmas cake, and rearranging the tree, but his human family seems to think that he has spoiled the holiday. When he is put out of the house, he asks his friend Pig what Christmas is all about. Neither Pig nor any of the other farmyard animals know the answer, and Mucky Pup spends Christmas Eve with them in the barn (not hearing his family's calls). In the morning, the two friends rush out to play in the fresh snow. Mucky Pup rolls down a hill and into the children's snowman, and is welcomed back into the house where they "fed him a delicious dinner and let him tumble and roll in the big pile of crumpled wrapping paper So this is Christmas, and I didn't ruin it! thought Mucky Pup happily." The slight story line is enhanced by Brown's soft yet energetic watercolor illustrations. Still, this book probably won't top anyone's must-have list.-L.F.
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