Dog Book Reviews

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Some choose underdogs. Some have underdogs thrust upon them. All of us end up content. This book is an expansive celebration of underdogs, a.k.a. mutts, and their people.  

A cheerfully-designed canine catalog, it gives us history, dog care tips, and lots of pictures: photographs by Bruce Weber and Mary Ellen Mark, a comic by the great Lynda Barry, whose purebred poodle Fred Milton falls hard for lady mutts, as well as drawings by Robert Risko, Marisa Marchetto, Martha Szabo, and Danny Gregory.  There are mutt-owning celebrity shout-outs from Hilary Swank to Isaac Mizrahi to - of course - Kevin Bacon. Ally Sheedy's moving tale of dog rescue reveals that her toddler daughter Rebecca, admiring their underdog Geordie, decided she, too, was a mutt.