Reviews

A Coyote's in the House by Elmore Leonard

austinburns's review

4.0

weirdest children’s book i ever did read. it’s about dogs so leonard gets to talk about bitches a lot. dialogue was good as ever, though!

lizbethandthelifeinbetween's review

3.0

This was a really interesting children's novel. Very different than what I've read before. I got through it in one sitting. It had a deeper message and it was a lot of fun as well, action and emotion packed which was great. The illustrations were nice and I loved the giant red letters at the start of every part. It was very nice all around. It had solid characters who were developed and changed throughout the book even though it was short and it had a commentary on the culture of keeping pets and Hollywood and stardom in general. It was nice to see that in a kids book at it's something that is often hidden from children and it was put into the perspective of animals and show dogs/cats to make it more fun and understandable. Definitely something I would recommend.

uncle_duke's review

5.0

Elmore for all ages! "You think pretending to be someone else is better than being who you are? What you do becomes your life ... and that's who you are." Fun Read.

psalmcat's review

4.0

I read this on the recommendation of my son, who thought it was good.

It's a YA book that has a coyote moving into the house of a movie star, a dog. The owners of the dog think he's a stray. They also have a show dog who has won loads of awards.

The premise is pretty much that one shouldn't judge others by what one thinks one knows about "other people." Not all coyotes are the same, and neither are all show dogs or "hero dogs." A subtext is that people are remarkably stupid about animals.

A nice story, took me about 2 hours to read it. The illustrations are nice, too.

citizenkahn's review

3.0

Silly me. I expected a book about smuggling and crime. guess I should have judged the book by it's cover.