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Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. Just a Dog by Michael Gerard Bauer Review by Yash Bhosale Summary Corey has a dog named,Mister Mosely and he is huge. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Ages 8 12.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Reading like a heartfelt eulogy, Bauer's (Don't Call Me Ishmael!) book will be particularly moving for anyone mourning the loss of a pet.

Sobering entries describe the events leading to Moe's decline and death, as well as Corey's father's downward spiral after losing his job. To most people, he's just a dog, but to Corey, Mister Mosely is family.Born to a Dalmatian mother and (apparently) a Great Dane father, the only spots on Mister Mosely. There are well-crafted light moments, too: Corey's sister decorates Moe with markers, the dog shreds a stuffed Pink Panther that has a funny backstory, and Moe learns to fetch the family's newspaper (as well as those delivered to neighbors). Moe's energy, affectionateness, and (it must be said) demise easily bring to mind John Grogan's Marley. The deep-felt emotion surrounding Dad's statement and Mum's reaction surfaces at the end of the novel, which is narrated by Moe's young owner, Corey, in neatly linked anecdotes. Despite the title and opening line ('The day my dad said that was just a dog,' my mum punched him'), it soon becomes clear that the enormous pet at the center of this tearjerker of a dog story, first published in Australia in 2010, is anything but 'just a dog' to his family.