There once was a dog who had no name, and he had no home.” Thankfully, this down-on-his-luck mutt has cuteness in spades, which comes in handy the day he meets a lonely boy in a city park. Usually he is shooed away and called “fleabag”—the fleas are illustrated as little dots floating above his head—but this particular boy likes him anyway. In fact, as the weeks wear on, the two look forward to each meeting. But then comes terrible news: the boy is moving away. The sadness of the moment is beautifully evoked with a giant green crest of a hill minimizing the city and giving rise to a blue sky empty of all things save a single airplane. Stephens' paint-and-pencil artwork nicely muddles the messy gray areas of a gritty city and alternates multiframe pages with spreads that are surprisingly open. This being a story about loyalty, there is naturally a very happy ending in store.
adorable story of a lonely little homeless dog called Fleabag who finds a new family in a little boy he meets at the park! A perfect read aloud for dog lover's!
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