Book jacket image for Elf Dog and Owl Head by M. T. Anderson

Candlewick

9781536222814

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Elf Dog and Owl Head

The world of M.T. Anderson’s Elf Dog and Owl Head, hauntingly rendered in Junyi Wu’s bold crosshatched pencil illustrations, is complex, broken, hopeful and real, even in its most fantastical moments.

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Review of ‘Elf Dog and Owl Head’

A boy and his dog—it’s the beginning of a story that's been told a thousand times. But when the dog is a Bulgarian elf-hound who magically appears in the woods, the story might be a little different. Elf Dog and Owl Head by National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson, with black-and-white illustrations…

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