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The Sailor Dog (A Little Golden Book) Review
User Submitted The Sailor Dog (A Little Golden Book) ReviewsNovember 12, 2008 Adventure and Enchantment My 1.5 year old daughter "won" this book by participating in our home town 4th of July Diaper Dash (she actually came in last place, that's our girl) and I didn't pay much attention to it given the circumstances. After a few weeks I picked up the book for one of our nightly bed time readings and wow, what a score. There is something deeply engaging about this simple book - Scupper's yearning and journey in search of his roots and his passion, being shipwrecked in a foreign land and overcoming set backs to keep pursuing what he loves. But I was always puzzled at some of the weird transitions and lack of completion to some of the references - though it's a childrens book and has some license for awkwardness I suspected that something else was up. Ah ha! So it was edited and some pages deleted, now it makes sense and what a shame. I still recommend this book as one of the sleepers ('scuse the pun) of childrens books. And it's a great way to explain foreign lands to young minds - I was recently working in Europe for a couple of week and we wanted a way to explain the concept of being across the ocean to our youngest - Papa was "over the hills and far away". When I returned she wanted to know if Scuppers was ok.... June 28, 2008 I love this story I chanced across this book one day and bought it for my (now 19-year-old) son, and it was so fun to read. We lost the book, but for years afterwards I always remembered the both the opening and closing lines: "Born at sea in the teeth of a gale, the sailor was a dog." "And here he is where he wants to be, a sailor sailing the deep green sea." It's just a darling story. Now I have a 3-year-old son again and I just had to buy him his own copy. It's one of the best bedtime stories ever :-) April 19, 2008 Warm hearted silly adventures . I remembered this being read to/with me when I was a pre-schooler in the early fifties. I have strong memories of the art work as warm and secure images. Seeing them again fifty plus years later showed me why, they are outstanding! I had forgotten the plot, which is silly and fun to read aloud. More positive than most nursery plots, and with an independent well anthropomorphized canine hero. February 2, 2007 Long lost book I am so happy to have found "The Sailor Dog". I loved it as child so many,many years ago.It never left my mind.I loved the optimistic way of Scruffy and his adventures.The illustrations are still vivid in my memory. Simply, I fell in love with him and his ways. January 28, 2007 Classic Story I loved this story as a child, and purchased it for a books for children drive. It is about a dog who becomes a sailor and builds a new life. It is a book about adventure for the very young. Perfect for ages 3-6. January 3, 2007 Shortened But Still Good The Sailor Dog was my favorite book growing up. I remember it fondly as I looked at the pictures imagining a world where dogs sailed the ocean or flew planes and went on grand adventures. I have ordered the orginal in the past from Amazon for a local book drive and got what I expected. On this recent order which was for our 2 year old who loves both books and dogs I got the Little Golden Book edition. Remember those wonderful small books with the gold spine? This edition, however, was not the same Sailor Dog of my childhood. It is an edited version without some of the pages. If you are looking for the original, keep looking. Otherwise this is a fun book. December 3, 2006 Not so golden The Little Golden Book edition of this wonderful story does it an injustice: not all the pages from the original are included, and those that are are reduced in size. Try and find the original if you can. January 6, 2003 I loved this book 50 years ago and was thrilled to find it This book spoke to my soul as a little child (in the 1950s) - dreams of making it on my own, seeing the world, being adventurous. For years I looked for it, not remembering who it was by or the name. What a thrill to find it now and to be able to buy it for my friends' children and grandchildren! Thank you to Golden Books for bringing this back. But please give us an edition with all the illustrations and copy! June 15, 2002 His song sounds familiar! I have read this book and could recognize that his song appears to be a spinoff of Popeye the Sailor Man's theme song. The words, "I'm strong to the Finich 'cause I eat my spinach" were replaced with, "I can sail in a gale right over a whale". But there are no words to replace the lyrics, "I'm one tough Gazookus which hates all Palookas..." and so on. February 22, 2002 Oddly entrancing story and pictures My 2-year-old daughter loves this book, and so do I. The story makes very little sense when you think about it using adult reasoning, but plot isn't really what matters here. It's the magical, humorous and exciting atmosphere, captured in great colors and textures by Garth Williams. Now that I now that some pages were omitted from this edition, I'm going to be looking for an older copy! For more The Sailor Dog (A Little Golden Book) reviews click here.
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