Butt Ugly - Hardcover

BUTT UGLY is a smallish green dog with a snaggle-toothed smile and three little hairs sticking up from his butt. He's the runt in a litter of thirteen walloping tail-waggers. The other pups get names like Sparky, Princess and Fang. But everyone calls him BUTT UGLY. It makes him feel puny?inside and out. When the day arrives for new owners to come and choose puppies to take home, Butt Ugly hangs his head and hides in the corner. "Who wants a dog named Butt Ugly?" he mumbles to himself. And sure enough, all the puppies find homes, except Butt Ugly. And just when it looks like he couldn't feel any punier, BUTT UGLY is stuffed in the bottom of a basket and left abandoned on a doorstep in a Ding-Dong-Ditch! Mutts of the world unite! This book is for every creature who has ever felt a little shy, a little alone, or a little butt ugly. And for all the heroes who have opened their homes and their hearts to love them. BUTT UGLY's Ding-Dong-Ditch turns into the happiest day of his life, for him and the marvelous boy who finds him. Butt Ugly strikes a chord with every child who has ever felt different and alone. Butt Ugly touches the heart of anyone who has ever rescued and loved any 2-legged, 4-legged and even 50-legged creature. Butt Ugly celebrates the inner beauty in us all. BUTT UGLY proves that beauty is more than three butt hairs deep! BUTT UGLY is the new beautiful. If you've ever had trouble keeping your three little butt hairs in place, if you've ever practiced smiling in front of the mirror, but can't keep that snaggle-tooth from popping out?this Butt's for you!

BUTT UGLY is triple-green. It has a green theme, it's printed on recycled paper, and it also collaborates with Eco-Libris, a "tree-offset" company to replenish the world's forests. For this first edition of Butt Ugly, 1,250 trees will be planted in developing countries. Buy a book, plant a tree. Look for the eco-libris logo on BUTT UGLY and know you are helping to re-GREEN the world.

Lynn Montgomery is a writer for television, radio, and newspapers. She created the NBC and Disney Channel series, The Torkelsons, and has won a Writer’s Guild Award for her television adaptation of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books. She lives in Santa Barbara, California. Terrie Redding is a painter and has worked in marketing for The New York Times and Cosmopolitan. She lives in Dallas, Texas.