Oddly enough, the storyline revolves around a very complicated and difficult situation without dwelling too much on the serious aspect of it all.
I included it in my ten favorite picture books from 2014 over on Mamalode, and lo and behold, the International Book Giving Fairy brought it to our home. The whole thing leads me very nicely into today’s story, Gaston, by Kelly DiPucchio and illustrated by Christian Robinson. But still, they’re both pups (about 2-ish), they’re both gentle with the kids, and they both equally love a rollicking good play sesh or curling into each other for a nap, yin yang style. Somehow we’ve become the people whose dog has taken over the couch, and when I tell him to sit he immediately rolls over onto his back and gets so excited he still sometimes pees himself a little. We call him a weinador, and he maybe weighs 35.
Angus is a mutt of a chocolate lab, possibly with some dachshund in him- his body, head, and tail look like a normal labrador, but his legs are only about four inches long. He’s very well trained- like the kind of well trained where he will sit until he’s released. North is a full sized yellow lab, probably 65 pounds or so. But now our friend is here to visit for a good long while and so it’s all loving all the time around here.
When our friend comes over without North, Angus runs out to his truck to wait for North to jump out (only to realize that he’s not there after all, at which point Angus lies dejectedly in a corner for the rest of the afternoon). They are our dog Angus and our friend’s dog, North. As I try to take photos of said book, I’m constantly having to push them out of the frame and do my best to stay upright myself. As I sit here trying to come up with something to write about this fantastic book the kids got for International Book Giving Day (it’s a thing, I promise I did not make that up), I have two dogs wrestling (loving) at my feet.
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