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ENCHANTED STORIES: Cat Dog Dog: The Story of a Blended Family

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Cat Dog Dog: The Story of a Blended Family
Written by Nelly Buchet
Illustrated by Andrea Zuill
Schwartz & Wade Books, 2020. Picture book.

Some stories don't need a lot of words to get their message across. This book is one of those stories. Almost all the pages only contain the words cat and dog, in various orders. Despite having a small vocabulary, the book tells a hilarious and rapturous tale of what happens when a family with one dog and a family with a dog and a cat join together. Cat and Dog happily live together with their human. Although they occasionally don't get along, they're mostly content. Dog, on the other hand, is an only child living with his human in an another house. But when their two humans move in together and the animals are forced to become a trio, they learn that three is a lot of animals for one family.

Nelly Buchet and Andrea Zuill use minimal words and expressive illustrations effectively to tell the story of a blended pet family, and how they discover that maybe three isn't such a bad number after all, especially when a new edition to the family shows up.
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