My 15 year old dachsund had all his remaining teeth extracted today, which reminded me of the picture book Dr. DeSoto. It's the story of a brave mouse dentist whose patient is a fox, and it's one of several books by this Brooklyn-born author who also created the character Shrek. He worked as a cartoonist before he started writing, to help his family during the Depression, and his drawings appeared often in the New Yorker magazine. He won the Caldecott award for his illustrations in Sylvester and the Magic Pebble in 1970. He died at the age of 95 in 2003. This is William Steig.
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