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    Tango: The Tale of an Island Dog

    Written by Eileen Beha

    Narrated by Kimberly Farr

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    Tango is used to the good life. He has a silver heart charm for his dog collar, a luxurious doggy bed-even specially made booties for taking walks in Central Park. But disaster strikes when Tango's owners sail into stormy waters off the coast of Nova Scotia and the little Yorkie is swept overboard. Washed ashore on Prince Edward Island, Tango waits for his owners to come for him. As days turn into weeks, Tango despairs of ever getting back to Manhattan-unless he does something about it himself. Carrying out his plan, Tango finds his path intertwining with a mysterious island fox on the last great journey of his life, a three-legged cat fallen on hard times, a brokenhearted widow, and a runaway girl searching for a home of her own. Will the little dog who is used to the good life ever find a place that his heart calls home?


    From the Compact Disc edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 25, 2009
    ISBN9780307579874
    Author

    Eileen Beha

    Eileen Beha is a former middle school principal. She lives in Minnesota with her husband and two dogs--Tango and Louise--and vacations regularly on Prince Edward Island. This is her first book.

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    • 4/5
      A Yorkie thrown overboard in a storm, a girl who has moved from one foster home to another, a fox who is a self-appointed guardian of the girl, a lonely older woman and a three-legged cat. What a mix! Eileen Beha, a first novelist, had done a pretty good job of putting an interesting tale together. Tango, the Yorkie is a pampered pup who lives the absolutely GOOD LIFE. Unfortunately, a storm throws him into a different kind of situation. He winds up with a somewhat reluctant rescuer, Miss Gustie. McKenna, who has been bouncing from one foster home to another, becomes a part of Tango's existence. Beau, a fox, who has been watching over McKenna since she was a baby becomes a mentor to Tango. Nigel Stump, the three legged cat, also plays a part in Tango's survival on the Island.Obviously some things happen conveniently and the story has what looks to be a happy future for all. There is plenty of action and excitement that makes the reader turn the page because you want to find out what happens next. The journey to that ending was not an easy one for any of the characters. There was a great deal of anguish, pain, tears and suffering. Both the human and nonhuman characters were pretty well developed and interesting. Most of the bad guys were nonhuman, cats. As a cat lover, it was hard to accept but there are always bad guys in every group, right? The action moved back and forth from human world to nonhuman world very well. This was a fast moving novel and I think it works on several levels. You find yourself caring about whether Tango will make the transition to his new life. You want McKenna to find a home as well, where she feels like she is welcome and loved. You also want Beau to find the peace he is searching for and you want Nigel Stump to escape from the influence of those horrible cats. I enjoyed this first novel and I think others will as well.
    • 3/5
      Tango led a charmed life with his Manhattan socialite owner, Marcellina, enjoying every luxury imaginable, from a silver collar to a pearl-studded leash. But when the little Yorkshire terrier is washed overboard during a yachting trip, he eventually finds himself on Canada's Prince Edward Island, where a new life awaits him. Taken in by the widowed Augusta - known to the locals as Miss Gustie - Tango is determined to return to his old life, but unsure of how to do so. Meanwhile, there are other newcomers in the village of Victoria-by-the-Sea, from orphaned twelve-year-old McKenna Skye, on the run from an abusive foster-care home, to the mysterious Beau Fox, an elderly vulpine figure who has watched over McKenna since she was an infant. Added to the mix are Nigel the three-legged cat, a friendless feline who has taken up with a sinister gang of cats living in an abandoned house, and Malachi the mad rat, driven insane by human experimentation, and darkly plotting his revenge against the world. All their stories collide, as Tango embarks on a journey of discovery, in which he learns just where he belongs...Published in 2009, Tango is author Eileen Beha's debut novel for children. It offers a fairly engaging tale, one populated by a number of interesting characters, both animal and human. That said, I sometimes felt that not all of the characters' stories worked well together, and that the narrative focus was too divided. As someone with an interest in the figure of the fox in children's literature - I tracked down a copy of the book specifically because it contained the character of Beau Fox - it probably isn't surprising that I enjoyed the story of Beau's faithful devotion to McKenna the best, out of all the various narrative strands in the book. I also appreciated the guidance Beau offered to his canine cousin, Tango, and thought that these two story strands - Tango's involuntary adoption by Miss Gustie, and McKenna's search for a true home - worked together very well, both thematically and structurally. The story strands involving Nigel and the other cats who live in Pitiful Place, and Malachi the deranged rat, on the other hand, seemed unnecessary, and sometimes even a little distasteful. Beha didn't really devote enough time to fully exploring the issues raised by Nigel's character flaws - he has a conscience, but has trouble following it - or by the implicit human betrayal of animalkind that created a place such as Pitiful Place, and its residents. Nigel himself reflects, at one point, that no one took him in - a cat injured by human traps - when he needed help, but Beha never raises the matter again. By the same token, Malachi is meant to be the sole survivor of some kind of experiment (as well as a later purge of the rodents taken in by Old Ada Phillips), but the significance of this fact (and its potential power as a means of provoking reflection) is mostly lost, given the relatively little attention the character is given, in the narrative. Never fully explored, these characters and their stories feel like nothing so much as an intrusion upon the 'real' tale of Tango, Miss Gustie, McKenna and Beau. Still, despite these flaws, I did enjoy the book, both as an animal story and as an orphan tale. The latter struck me as particularly appropriate, given that Prince Edward Island's most famous daughter, the author L.M. Montgomery, was renowned for her tales of orphans finding a home...