One Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith

                                                     
                                                   One Hundred and One Dalmatians
                                                                       1956

This has to be one of the wackiest books I've read.

 Pongo and Missis (Missis is expecting puppies) are a married couple of Dalmatian dogs living in London with their "pets" Mr. and Mrs. Dearly a young married couple of humans.
 One day while on a walk, they meet Cruella de Vil. Her hair is parted down the middle and one side is black and the other white. Cruella de Vil thinks the Dalmatians would make great fur coats; and she wants to buy the puppies when they are born. Mr. and Mrs. Dearly tell her the puppies won't be for sale.
 While out on a walk one day Pongo and Missis come home to find all fifteen of their puppies stolen.
 Through Twilight Barking (the dogs news and gossip chain) Pongo and Missis learn where there puppies are being kept.

 The rest of the book is about Pongo and Missis journeying to save their puppies and bringing them and the other eighty-two puppies they found home safe.

 The Baddun brother's (the thieves who Cruella de Vil hired to steal the puppies) favorite television show is "What's My Crime?" a spoof of "What's My Line?"

 One Hundred and One Dalmatians is very similar to the 1961 Disney film by the same name.
 This book is a lot of fun.

 

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