我们所有人都可以从狗狗身上学到东西。在《心爱一只小狗》中，**艺术家和作家梅伊拉•卡尔曼（Maira Kalman）尽其所能阐述了我们珍爱的伙伴。从她的**儿童读物中被描绘得很可爱的狗狗，到依然鼓舞着她的现实生活中的宠物，卡尔曼的《心爱一只小狗》令人愉快，插图精美，并且一如既往地蕴含深厚的哲理。

Dogs have lessons for us all. In Beloved Dog, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman illuminates our cherished companions as only she can. From the dogs lovingly illustrated in her acclaimed children’s books to the real-life pets who inspire her still, Kalman’s Beloved Dog is joyful, beautifully illustrated, and, as always, deeply philosophical.  

Here is Max Stravinsky, the dog poet of Oh-La-La (Max in Love)-fame, and her own Irish Wheaton Pete (almost named Einstein, until he revealed himself to be “clearly no Einstein”), who also made an appearance in the delightful What Pete Ate: From A to Z. And of course, there is Boganch, Kalman’s in-laws’ “big black slobbering Hungarian Beast.” And that’s just the beginning.

With humor and intelligence, Kalman gives voice to the dogs she adores, noting that they are constant reminders that life reveals the best of itself when we live fully in the moment and extend unconditional love. “And it is very true,” she writes, “that the most tender, complicated, most generous part of our being blossoms without any effort, when it comes to the love of a dog.”