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Orchard Books, 2012
$16.99, ages 3 and up, 40 pages
A little girl sees just what she wants to see in a big, rough-and-tumble stray, in this joyful celebration of positive thinking.
One morning Lily lifts her chin just enough to see out of her bedroom window and spots a giant animal rummaging through her garbage can.
Thinking nothing of the fruit peels and tin cans flying through the air, she decides right there that this guy's everything she ever wanted in a pet: he's got four legs, a tail and a big, wet nose.
"Doggy!" she cries, running out in the yard in her galoshes, flinging her arms up in delight.
Now face-to-face with this barreling fellow, she realizes he's a lot bigger than she thought and when he growls he sounds a bit grouchy.
But no matter because Lily thinks he's lovely. All he needs, she tells herself, is a good looking-after.
So Lily sets off to do just that. She ties her extra-long striped purple scarf around his neck and a bright yellow bow on his head, and walks him into her house to see if mom will let her keep him.
Mom, who doesn't seem to notice that Doggy is not exactly a dog, calmly explains that Doggy isn't theirs to keep. He must belong to someone, she tells Lily, and the owner is probably missing him a great deal. So no, Lily can't possibly keep him.
This is not at all what Lily had hoped to hear, but she knows Mom is probably right. So she plunks down on the floor next to Doggy to make a missing pet poster with crayons and paper.
Lily has lots of descriptive details to put under the word "Found!" because there's so much she loves about Doggy.
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