When Rosa the puppy moves to town with her aunt, she discovers a confusing new world, one filled with noise, cars, trash to eat, lots of new dogs to be friends, and a pet hospital for puppys who swallow their rubber toys.
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Rosa is a spunky dog, a veritable Hoover of the canine realm, ingesting every interesting morsel she encounters whether it is food or not. She and her ``aunt'' have moved to the city where she has to remain on a leash, but where the streets are full of delicious leftovers and there are always new dogs to meet. Rosa's foraging goes too far when she swallows chunks of her rubber toys and must be admitted to the hospital for surgery. It's a minor setback in Rosa's book, for she is ready for her next adventure when her ecstatic aunt picks her up. Lindgren renders the entire piece from a dog's view, leaving it to readers to determine that Rosa's aunt is really her owner, and reporting without comment on the puppy with ``only one eye because the other one had popped out when she was fighting with her own mother.'' Scary. (Picture book. 3-6) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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ROSA WILL CLEAN UP!,
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This review is from: Rosa Moves to Town (Stella) (Hardcover)
Rosa is a spirited little dog who looks mostly like an anvil headed English bull terrier. She loves to chew things and will chew and swallow any object left in her path.Her owner loves her dearly and will move mountains for her. When Rosa swallows one of her rubber squeaky toys, her owner has her admitted to a pet hospital where the dog undergoes surgery to remove the rubber toy. Hospitals are frightening places for anybody of any age. To her credit, the author helps keep some of that fear at bay by having a dog patient as opposed to a human patient. Using this distancing technique makes it easier to laugh at the notion of a pet hospital (such places do exist) and cheer for the recovery of the avaricious little dog.
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When the wind began to blow wildly through the treetops, Rosa and her aunt moved to town. Read the first page New!
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When the wind began to blow wildly through the treetops, Rosa and her aunt moved to town. Read the first page New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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