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With the candor and wit that he's known for, Daniel Pinkwater shares heartfelt and often peculiar reflections on the dogs (and other assorted creatures) that have shaped his life and family traditions. Pinkwater begins with the tale of his colorful Uncle Boris, who sets off on a trek from Warsaw to the Yukon in search of gold. Along the way he strikes up a curious friendship with Jake, the lead dog in his team of malamutes, who, as it happens, converses in perfect Yiddish. This is the first in a series of delightful anecdotes that introduce a curious cast of canines, including a couple of wolf breeds, a Labrador retriever, a few more malamutes, a chow chow, a mutt, and even a Pekinese, among others.
A "mordantly funny and smartly entertaining mix of memoir and fancy" (Booklist), Uncle Boris in the Yukon shows us a world where, though Pinkwater is top dog, it's the four-legged companions who steal the show.
Author Biography: Daniel Pinkwater is regarded by critics, educators, psychologists, and law enforcement agencies as the world's most influential writer of books for children and young adults. Since 1987, he has been a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered and two collections of his essays have been brought out to the delight of listeners who can read. He lives in Hyde Park, New York.
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Frances Drzewicki
reviewed Uncle Boris in the Yukon, and other shaggy dog stories on August 23, 2012 Uncle Boris in the Yukon
This book was recommended to me by Jessica Day George as we were talking about dogs, specifically Pippin, my favorite wind-up toy. I said I owned it but had never read it (this applies to about a third of the books I own) and she *insisted* that I read it IMMEDIATELY because I was clearly in need of something fun after finishing three intense books in three days.
She was totally right. I was in tears the whole time, because Pinkwater does this thing where he's just going along, telling a story, and then he drops some off-hand comment that is like a humor bomb in the middle of a paragraph, and it's so startling that it's even funnier than it would ordinarily be. Pinkwater is also something of a genius at reproducing the Polish-Yiddish dialects of his father and uncles, and good dialect is something I love in a book. I am not a dog person--Pinkwater addresses this briefly, saying that dogs are far too much trouble to raise unless you are totally committed to them, and it's okay if you aren't--but I love reading about other people's passions, and Daniel and Jill Pinkwater are passionate about their dogs. Brilliant and hilarious, and I wish I'd read it sooner.
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