That Dog!

This brilliant second picture book from Emma Lazell—a rising star of the picture-book world—is a hilarious dognapping caper.

There’s a team of dognappers on the loose! They’ve stolen lots of pooches, but this time they’re up against a very clever dog.

The cunning Penelope Dognapper is very keen to get her hands on the latest rare breed, the lesser-spotted woofer. Her big mistake is sending Patrick, her accomplice, to do the job. He has great difficulty identifying the right dog—that dog—and in a house that also contains a snake, a tortoise, and a characterful cat, you can imagine the chaos that ensues as he tries to steal the dog.

And that dog is a very smart woofer. He’s a bit of a detective in his spare time, and he might just have worked out who’s behind the dastardly crimes. Will he avoid getting caught himself and rescue his fellow creatures?

Emma Lazell is a U.K.-based illustrator and author. Her work is linear, expressive, and sprinkled with irony and playfulness. In 2018, she completed the hugely prestigious M.A. in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, graduating with a distinction. In 2014, she graduated with an undergraduate degree in Illustration from the University for the Creative Arts. That Dog! is Emma’s second picture book; her first, Big Cat, was published in 2019.