In his memoir, Many Different Kinds of Love, Michael Rosen hoped to recover from Covid to write a book “about a French dog called Gaston le Dog”. The former children’s laureate survived. Now here’s the book.
Pitched at the youngest end of chapter tales, The Incredible Adventures of Gaston le Dog (Walker Books) follows a farm dog who dreams of returning to an idyllic beach. His odyssey takes twists and turns; a villainous version of Puss in Boots and some gloriously French-named animals – Libellule the dragonfly – figure. But Gaston’s beach is not as he remembers it. And he learns that reality can be both disappointing – and an improvement on fairytales.
