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dogs smiling for dog reasons
Grace Chon & Melanie Monteiro
132 pages
colour illustrations
Summary: There's no mistaking a happy dog. The wagging tail, the eager eyes, the smile that's impossible to fake. A happy dog radiates pure joy. Yet the mystery remains: What's really going on behind those waggish grins? Are our dogs laughing with us? At us? Are they operating at a higher stage of enlightenment ... or just buttering us up before we discover the tiny, torn remnants of burrito wrapper suspiciously dotting the hallway? In Waggish , the infinite expressions of happy dogs are captured in a series of photographs by animal photographer Grace Chon. As for what these dogs are really thinking, writer Melanie Monteiro channels their innermost thoughts, pairing each photo with a caption such as, "If loving tennis balls is wrong, I don't want to be right" and "You know, we'll both get outside a lot quicker if you just forget the pants." (Publisher)