This book is beautifully written and together with the illustrations, it brings out a touching story about kindness and belonging.
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I love how the author gives two opposite views in the text: a hopeful and loving one from our narrator (“Sad could draw beautiful pictures”), and a pessimistic/realistic one from the voice of human characters in the book (“Stop digging in my garden!” Mrs. Cripps screamed.). It is something that worths mentioning since it reflects how choosing a perspective shapes one’s experience in a wonderful way or simply withers someone else who has a gentle heart.
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When a new chapter comes to the life of our little character, I realised how the perspective is now of the dog himself: he feels all the love and freedom yet he doesn’t see the ‘flaw’ from his new friend; even the narrator would not point it out to the readers (but let us all see it in the illustrations). This makes the book is more heartwarming. As I quickly finished the book in one go, I felt bittersweet to bid this little dog farewell (how I wish it could be a little longer journey)...