Jack the Dog

Jack the dog gets lost in the fog, wanders aboard a boat, and ends up in old Japan. In seeking advice on the whereabouts of a cup of tea, he is confronted by an ever lengthening list of dress code rules that he must obey. Just as he's completed his kit and is about to have his first sip of green tea, he hears somebody calling him. John Rowe's attempt to get inside the head of a dreaming dog has created an idiosyncratic picture book, with full-page illustrations, done in luminous islands of bold acrylic on dark or uneasy pastel seas, which are as fey as the facing text. A very unusual book which will give its young readers something to puzzle over.