Old Dogs

Sally Muir began asking people to send in photographs of their old dogs — grey muzzles, milky eyes, wobbly legs — and the result is this small, warm collection of paintings and drawings that captures something true about the particular tenderness of a very old dog. Muir works across a range of mediums: loose sketches, lithographs, potato prints, oil paintings — each finding a different way into a different dog's character. The captions are as good as the pictures: Lily, looking more miserable than she actually is. Dysie, who still hasn't figured out how to bark.

A follow-up to Muir's best-selling A Dog A Day, and a book that will be immediately understood by anyone who has loved a dog into old age. Compact, unpretentious, and genuinely moving.