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Review: A Dog's Perfect Christmas

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I have a dozen or so brilliant books stacked up awaiting words of adoration but this one rose to the top like jersey cream on a fresh pail of milk. Simply glorious. And with its timely release just months before the-Christmas-we-really-all-need this year, A Dogā€™s Perfect Christmas is, wellā€¦the perfect Christmas gift. A Dogā€™s Perfect Christmas , a novella of sorts by A Dogā€™s Purpose collection best-selling creator, W Bruce Cameron does not disappoint. This narrative departs from Cameronā€™s usual delivery from a dogā€™s point of view relying instead on a delightful collection of third person points of view, including the dogsā€™. This equates to a novel rich with emotional connection and bristling with exuberance, warmth, humor, tenderness and abject dread, rather like a dog visiting the vetā€™s. The swings from fraught school yard cliques to boardroom ballsups to doggie destruction are smooth and bright leaving us fully invested with the whole the family. Kind-hearted, Hunter Goss is ...