182 pages
English language
Published April 4, 2000 by Candlewick Press.
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
It is one of those books that when you pick it you know that you are gonna love it and you do love it after all.
This story covers a lot of emotional ground, but I was laughing the whole way through. That's a rare balance.[return][return]Alcoholism, abandonment, criminals, exclusion, the Civil War, non-parenting, etc. Animal stories distract us a little from the blades of these knives, and we finish the story mostly unscathed. It's so well written and charming, I'd recommend it to anyone.
