PICTURE BOOKS, EASY READERS, MIDDLE GRADE & YOUNG ADULT

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Just Perfect
More Adventures of Jules the Lighthouse Dog

by P.T. Custard
Illustrated by Ana Greer
Black Plume Books
ISBN: 978-0-9785317-2-0
32 pages, hardcover
$15.95

For kids and their admirers who struggle with the illusion that it’s possible to be perfect comes Just Perfect: More Adventures of Jules the Lighthouse Dog. The book opens with Jules under the impression that he’s “just perfect” – and judging by the book’s lush illustrations this big brown-eyed beauty is truly a gorgeous dog in real life. All Jules’ friends, who look and act exactly like him, supposedly believe he’s just perfect, too. Then Jules finds himself in a dog park surrounded by other kinds of dogs … suspiciously different and foreign strangers of every description. He feels sorry for the other dogs at first, the poor things who couldn’t possibly be as perfect as he.

But then Jules moves toward experiencing an open-hearted goodwill and emotional maturity. Goodbye to doggie tribalism and hello to live and let live. — S.FRIEDMAN • 10/10