The Turnspit Dog: Poems, Pamela Gillilan

In kitchens of two centuries ago, a little dog was often used to work a treadwheel which turned a spit-roast in the hearth. This lively collection of Gillilan's poems, with woodcuts by Cory, portrays creatures from cats and dogs to fish and dodos, many of them much the worse for mankind's demands on them. If animals could read books, they'd buy this in droves, for it shows people in none too good a light, not only cut off from the natural world, but sometimes from each other too.