Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Dog

Adventures of Wishbone #14

by Nancy Butcher, Alexander Steele

Wishbone follows the trail of the strange man terrorizing London

Genres: Childrens, Animals, Middle Grade

143 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1998

About the author

Nancy Butcher has written on health and wellness subjects for WholeHealthMD.com and other websites as well as creating wellness booklets for Time-Life Books. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling children's book It's Snow Problem, and 101 Ways to Stop Eating After Dinner.

Reviews

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Over the past decade or so, I've read several Wishbone books. I think I checked out every one my local library had, and some more than once; I've also obtained them from library sales, thrift stores, garage sales, used bookstores, an eBay lot, and even a Little Free Library my mom and I stumbled on while out and about. I thought I had read all of them...but, Goodreads showed me I hadn't read this one until today.

I enjoyed the story; it was fun, particularly the bits about the Elvis impersonator. If you've read the other books in this series, you know what to expect; that's what you get here.

[Wendy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will always love this series, and this entry is no exception! I've read the original tale, and I greatly enjoyed it, but that didn't make this child-friendly entry any less entertaining.

I think people need to keep in mind, when they're reading these, that the target audience is children, who won't necessarily know the ending any more than they might know the information the book goes out of its way to give them, like why Scotland Yard is called "Scotland Yard." Kids aren't born knowing these things, and these books are intended as introductions to great literature for them to give them that background knowledge that we take for granted, while still being entertaining. I think it does a great job at both tasks.

[Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

sometimes I just need to read a book from my childhood 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Ranee · Rating 3 out of 5]

My older children watched Wishbone adventures all the time so was excited to find an old paperback of this story. The connection with Wanda and Mr Pruitt is pretty loose, the Jekyll and Hyde story pretty creepy - kept my 11 year old’s attention as I read it to him for sure and so far no nightmares 🙂

[John Peel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another novel based on the TV show "Wishbone", and as much fun as usual. The main problem here is that pretty much everybody knows the "surprise" ending by now.

[Twyla · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favorite part was when both Utterson and Wishbone found out what exactly was going on in their respective worlds. My least favorite part was when Mr. Hyde grew out of control.