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Title: Doctor De Soto by William Steig ISBN: 0-374-41810-1 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 30 June, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A gentle and witty book, sure to delight children and adults
Comment: This tale of a gentle and clever mouse dentist who outwits a hungry fox charmed my children. It's a delightfully witty book and a pleasure to read to children, who will request it over and over again!
Rating: 4
Summary: De Soto: Mouse Dentist Extraordinaire!
Comment: The author William Steig will be forever missed for his clever and delightful stories for the kiddie set. In "Doctor De Soto", Steig places the action in a land where such stories as "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" have taken place. In the story, animals of all types interact just as humans do, all the while retaining some very wild aspects. The story takes place in what looks to be the 1930s. As in Steig's "When Everybody Wore a Hat", the animals look as if they'd be comfortable listening to the radio and discussing President Roosevelt's reforms before going to bed each night. Dr. De Soto is a mouse dentist, who runs a quiet family practice with his wife. Normally, the De Soto's do not treat carnivorous animals but that rule changes when a pitiful fox comes to them with a toothache. Steig's drawings are sometimes easily dismissed as simplistic. This is not the case. Tiny details dot the illustrations, giving each page the feel of a snapshot into another world. The stairs leading to the De Soto office are separated into two types, large for bigger animals (donkeys, pigs, etc.) and smaller for woodland creatures. Dr. De Soto himself has set up a series of pulleys that allow him to work in the larger animals' mouths. Kids will like the book, gleefully observing the picture where a bloody infected tooth is pulled from the fox's mouth (little droplets of blood falling to the ground). If there is a moral to the story, it's probably to be vigilant. But who picks up a Steig book for a moral? This is just a fun piece of kid literature that everyone will like. It probably works best as an introductory text to the world of William Steig. Just be sure not to miss it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not for anyone who is unsure about dentists...
Comment: This book describes pulling a tooth pretty graphically (complete with blood dripping off the tooth) and then the dentist tricks his fox patient by telling him what is really glue is a treatment to prevent toothaches.
I'm sure older kids who are already familiar with their dentist would like this book, but it is NOT for small children or the faint of heart.
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Title: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig ISBN: 0671662694 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 02 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Amos & Boris by William Steig ISBN: 0374403600 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Amazing Bone by William Steig ISBN: 0374403589 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Doctor De Soto Goes to Africa by William Steig ISBN: 0062059017 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Brave Irene by William Steig ISBN: 0374409277 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 April, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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