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Naughty Mabel Sees It All

It’s got a great title, and it’s written with a great voice, that brings out the personality of the main character.  The cartoonish illustrations, likewise, are drawn to contribute to the personality of the characters, but there’s a gray undertone to the color scheme that detracts and leaves them a bit drab.  The story itself is fine, but not especially compelling:  dog’s in trouble for wreaking havoc on the furniture, because she thinks she’s battling monsters, but it turns out that she needs glasses, so she gets taken to the doggy optometrist, tries on a bunch of glasses, but opts for contacts instead, and all is well.  It left me a bit flat.