- Dogs, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Caldecott Medal
Two dogs each claim a bone they have found and ask passersby for help in deciding ownership.
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Spare, intimate, classical in form and warm.
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Harcourt, Brace, Dōwakan Shuppan
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9780156309509
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“Two dogs were digging in the yard.”
Anthropologist who published young adult novels and a thesis under his own name, and children's books under the pseudonym "Will" in collaboration with artist Nicolas Mordvinoff.
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