One Dog Too Many

Animal Inn #9

by Virginia Vail

When Val rescues a puppy and decides to keep it until someone claims it, the other family pets become jealous of the new arrival.

Genres: Childrens, Animals, Fiction

119 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Meg GlitteryOtters]

4.5 stars

[Rena Sherwood]

This is weakest of the Animal Inn books that I've read so far. My criticism of it is going to seem far too harsh, I know, but I'm going to do it anyway.



I am not a member of the targeted audience for this series. I wasn't the fist time I discovered the series when I was in my 20s and certainly am out of the ballpark for a target audience member now that I'm 47. Why do I read this series at my age? I do it for relaxation.

This book did not make me relaxed. Far from it. I found it quite upsetting because a poor dog is abandoned and another is diagnosed with cancer. Now, I realize that some degree of realism has to pop up in a kid's book series. It's in the second book of the series in spades and does a very good job of handling a very sad subject.

It's not handled so well this time. It seemed a bit gratuitous, like a close-up of a car crash victim instead of just the standard news chopper's view of it.

Now, I could be overreacting to events in the book. I fully admit that. However, this is the honest way I feel about the book and where else can one be honest in life except in a book review?

[Triss]

Skipped to the end.

[Kidz]

not my style