A Dog's Life

This book arrives with its own fold out legs and head, a tail that wags, and a bone on a string. Inside, you will find 26 anarchically adorned pages devoted to scrawly captions and ragamuffin illustrations about dogs: sketches of different species' ears and tails, a bit of canine history, some sayings about dogs, a few joky pictures of dogs of the world. The graphics present themselves as a deliberately slapdash, slash and patch bricollage, using scraps of mongrel text to assemble schematic pictures of dogs and doggy paraphernalia. I found it as physically unappealing as a slobbering rotty, but perhaps I was missing the point. Dog enthusiasts might be more sympathetic towards this stray mutt of a book.