Reviews for Uncle Boris in the Yukon, and other shaggy dog stories

The average rating for Uncle Boris in the Yukon, and other shaggy dog stories based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-07-20 00:00:00 Sarah Childers Read this aloud to my kids, and they loved it just as much as I do! Delightful, humorous, poignant stories about Man's Best Friend, as well as a particular man, and his best friend(s). Daniel Pinkwater is a winsome and brilliant writer, and I always think he's at his best when he's writing about himself. Throw in some dogs, and this is a winning combination!

Review # 2 was written on 2012-08-23 00:00:00 Ryan Panici 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.