Brilliant

By Roddy Doyle

Publisher: Amulet Books, 2015

Genre: Children’s Fiction

Pages: 192

Via: Library

First, a confession. Her Momness and I grabbed this book off the library shelf for two main reasons: 1) The cover. 2) One of us – I won’t say who – thought it was about a dog. I mean, hey. “Brilliant” and a black dog on the cover? Need I say more?

Well. We only had like 98 seconds to make a selection, so gimme a break, okay?

Then we got home. And started reading. Turns out one of us was way off the kibble on this book. By about a mile a half. So, listen up, Cupcake! I’m gonna tell ya what this book is really about, okay?

Ready? Get set! Let’s go!

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