The Hound and the Hidden Homework
Feb 01, 2019
4 minutes
by Julie Knutson
Art by Mike Moran
text © 2019 by Julie Knutson, art © 2019 by Mike Moran
ALICE RUMMAGED THROUGH her backpack, littering the kitchen table with its contents. “Purple crayon, eraser, spork, kazoo . . . Eeew! A banana peel!” she shrieked. “It’s not here, Mom! I know I did it. Did you recycle it?”
“No, Alice.”
“Is it in your briefcase?”
“NO, Alice!”
“Well then, there’s only one explanation. Longfellow ate my homework!”
Longfellow stirred, lifting his big gray head from his big gray dog bed. To be fair, he had consumed his share of oddities in the past.
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