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A giftable Christmas-themed MUTTS keepsake edition from New York Times best-selling author Patrick McDonnell. Can we really lose something that's already lost? Inside Patrick McDonnell's A Shtinky Little Christmas, Earl the dog and Mooch the cat celebrate the season by taking in a wayside waif, whom they promptly name Shtinky Puddin. Shtinky is a tiger-striped trash-can forager, frequent purrer, and lover of shpagetti, potpie, and shpagetti. As Christmas approaches, Shtinky Puddin grows ever more homesick and decides to depart the comfort and safety of Earl and Mooch&'s protection in hopes of finding home. With uncommunicative snowmen and zero luck, Shtinky Puddin gets lost in a blizzard, only to be found by Earl and Mooch, who then get lost themselves. Just in the Nick of time, a jolly rotund, red suit-wearing, white-bearded human approaches and delivers the traveling trio straight to their people's doorstep, only to learn that Shtinky Puddin's peoples have come to claim their lost tiger-striped kitty named Jules. With caviar rewards, Christmas naps, and New Year's resolutions to do less, this emotive Mutts gift book reminds us that there is indeed a reason for the season with themes of friendship, thankfulness, family, home, and hearth.
Author
In 1994 McDonnell created the comic strip MUTTS which now appears in over 700 newspapers and 20 countries. In 2005, McDonnell embarked on a children's book career. His first children’s book, which featured the MUTTS characters, The Gift of Nothing, quickly became a New York Times bestseller. Art (2006), his second release, told the story of a boy named Art who makes art. His next release, Just Like Heaven (2006), heralding the joys of simple blessings, was hailed in a starred review by Kirkus as 'a meditation on the true nature of miracles'. In 2007. McDonnell again returned to the New York Times bestseller list with Hug Time, featuring a kitten named Jules who goes around the world hugging endangered species. His fifth children’s book, South, was released in 2008. McDonnell’s website, muttscomics.com, promotes his animal and earth friendly philosophy. Consistent with McDonnell’s concern for the environment, all of the MUTTS books are printed on recycled paper. He and his wife Karen O’Connell are vegetarian and happily reside with their formerly feral cat MeeMow. from http://muttscomics.com/cast/patrick.asp
