A charming and witty take on a family going to the dogs and the dog who must save them, from the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award-winner. Filled to the brim with Meg's wry humour and beautiful prose and illustrated throughout in black and white, this is a story for the young and the young at heart. The Peachey family is in crisis. No one cooks dinner, no one picks up the dirty washing and thekids are always late for school. All because Mum has resigned from being Mum and taken up yogainstead. She's in the tree pose; everyone else is in the doghouse. Except McTavish, a rescue dog witha difference, on a mission to sort his new family out.Filled to the brim with Meg's wry humour and beautiful prose, this is a story for the young and the young at heart.