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I think, all in all, I like the visuals more, though, as they don't go down the way of being too unusual a palette, but just have a clear, easy and enjoyable style, conveying the dog life easily, and providing this adult reader with a beauteous Mrs Dearly that certainly would be a Dearly Beloved. More important for this review remains the fact that the text is fine for sharing with the young, as it has thirty or forty words a page max, and the script is shared evenly across the pages and even against a dark background is perfectly legible. But most important of all is that the young who are gifted this are sure to want to turn to these pages time and time again – and/or, however, want one of the characters for their own. Which is where I came in…

The same publishers have recently given us Disney cartoon adaptations with artwork from the beginnings of the films' creation – that for [[Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics) by Jon Scieszka and Mary Blair|Alice in Wonderland]] being the best. Steven Lenton also illustrated [[Fairytale Frankie and the Mermaid Escapade by Greg Gormley and Steven Lenton|Fairytale Frankie and the Mermaid Escapade by Greg Gormley]].