This book is a fantasy. Since none of this could really happen in real life. There is no way that a dog could cook and live in a two story house and talk and all sorts of things. The story does not really have a very well thought out plot it seems, and at time the story gets a little confusing. The author does not explain who Crispin is and how it came to be that the dog is all alone, but it talks about why he is named Crispin's Crispian, but then gives no answer. As an adult you can infer what the story means, but for a child this would be very difficult. ( )