Reviews

Dogs Who Changed the World: 50 Dogs Who Altered History, Inspired Literature... Or Ruined Everything by Dan Jones

pagesofash's review against another edition

informative lighthearted medium-paced

3.5

skylacine's review

hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

A neat collection of short chapters on various influential dogs throughout history, such as Hachiko, Balto, Togo, Laika, Rin Tin Tin, etc. It's a cute and simple book and it works! My only real gripes would be the sometimes very rough and inaccurate illustrations (e.g. Hachi in the book not looking at all like how the real dog looked) and that some of these dogs didn't exactly "change the world", at least not to me. While these dogs were definitely influential, it feels a bit weird to put "influencer" and photo model dogs on the same list as dogs who saved literal lives and such. 

Full review at: https://skybookcorner.blogspot.com/2023/05/book-review-dogs-who-changed-world-by.html