Stupid Dog Wendick - International Award Novel. Love Collection Edition

Author: Kate DiCamillo (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: International Award Novel ·；Newbery Honor Book. When you seek miracles, miracles seek you. The story is realistic and close to life, with delicate portrayal, warm language, moving plot, and is a book worth reading again and again. – School Library Journal The sweet and bittersweet plot is highly appealing. – Publishers Weekly The book won the Newbery Honor in 2001 and is beloved by readers. It is a life story set in a small town in the Southern United States. Girl Opal adopts a trouble-making dog named Wendell from a supermarket near her new home. This dog is neither beautiful nor brave, not very intelligent, and afraid of loneliness, but what makes it unique is its ability to grin. Opal gradually overcomes her psychological barriers and begins to try to reconnect with her long-lost mother, as well as make friends in her new environment because of this grinning dog.
This is a life story set in a small town in the Southern United States. Girl Opal adopts a trouble-making dog named Wendell from a supermarket near her new home. This dog is neither beautiful nor brave, not very intelligent, and afraid of loneliness, but what makes it unique is its ability to grin. Opal gradually overcomes her psychological barriers and begins to try to reconnect with her long-lost mother, as well as make friends in her new environment because of this grinning dog.
A girl named Opal, who grew up in a small town in the South, moves to the cold North with her stoic father. By chance, Opal brings home a trouble-making stray dog from a supermarket and names it Wendell. Although the dog is both ugly and dirty, it has a magical ability to grin at people. Wendell and Opal go to different places every day and meet different people. Miss Fanny, who wants a library as a gift, Otis, who is shy but can attract small animals with beautiful melodies, Gloriana, who is eccentric and called a "witch" by people, as well as Amanda, "Little Bit," and "Baldy," all become their good friends. The book won the Newbery Honor in 2001 and is beloved by readers.