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Michelle Superle

Auteur de Black Dog Dream Dog

2 oeuvres 29 utilisateurs 14 critiques

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Michelle Superle is a college professor at Okanagan College, where she teaches writing courses in the English and communications departments. She has taught childrens literature, creative writing, and composition courses at several Canadian Universities. Superle has published articles in Papers and afficher plus IRCI, as well as the children's novel Black Dog, Dream Dog, (TradeWind 2010). afficher moins

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Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
My 11 year old daughter could not get into this book, I thought it was quite sweet.
 
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sdrobert | 13 autres critiques | Oct 24, 2011 |
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
Sam Hudson, a young teenage girl, is bored and at slight odds with her mom. A dog finds its way into her backyard and she proceeds to hide it from her mom. It is a mystery as to where the dog came from. After finding it difficult to continue hiding the dog, Sam finds it a good home.
Sam did come clean with her mom, so there is that moral to the story.
I found it a cute story.
 
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hdzookeeper | 13 autres critiques | Oct 8, 2011 |
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A really great children's read! Fun and easy and a really great story.
 
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SaraEllen | 13 autres critiques | Oct 2, 2011 |
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A somewhat simple but enjoyable read - eleven year-old Sam finds a giant black dog and immediately knows there's something special about him. However, there's no way her strict mother would ever let her keep him - so Sam undertakes the monstrous task of taking care of Horatio on her own while keeping him a secret.

The best way to describe this would be cute, I think. The story is sweet, but Sam is, unfortunately, just not a very interesting character - relatable, perhaps, but there's nothing really special about her. The best part about this book for me was undoubtedly Horatio. As a confirmed dog lover and proud owner of a giant dog myself, I felt all the passages about Horatio's calming and beyond endearing personality very viscerally. I'm currently away at college and now have a desperate longing to cuddle with my own baby! Anyway, I did really like Stella's character - I found it very much more interesting and developed than either Sam's or her mom's.

Overall, a sweet book. I'm sure I would have lapped it up in grade school, but I found it a bit lacking at times. Extra half star for the lovely illustrations!
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curioussquared | 13 autres critiques | Sep 23, 2011 |

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Œuvres
2
Membres
29
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#460,290
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
14
ISBN
6