Pinkerton & Friends

Steven Kellogg. Dial Books, $30 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-8037-2979-7

Pinkerton & Friends: A Steven Kellogg Treasury collects 11 familiar stories from more than three decades. Favorites include The Island of the Skog; Pinkerton, Behave! and Best Friends. An introduction by Kellogg relative, Helen Hunt, and a biography by Barbara Elleman round out this compilation. .

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