Dog Save the Queen: The Tails of Britain

Selis, the dog lover behind two previous Chronicle canine titles (Cat Spelled Backwards Doesn't Spell God; Dog Bless America) turns to the U.K. for his third volume, since, as he puts it,""Everyone knows that the British are stark raving bonkers for their dogs."" The concept is simple: Selis travels all about, snapping photos of the pink tongues, wet black noses, soft, droopy ears and alert expressions of all sorts of dogs. Next to each picture, he places a brief and often very cutesy thumbnail bio of his subject. Austin, photographed in Cambridge, is a seeing eye dog who apparently sometimes leads his charge into lampposts; Lubo, captured in Glasgow, is a Border collie who""gets his hackles up at the sight of bald men."" There are dogs who drink red wine, eat honeydew melons, have their own perches at local pubs, get arrested for wandering around without their leashes and chase cats and pigeons. Selis's pictures are pretty standard portraits, varied enough to be interesting while still giving dog lovers what they want: lots of sweet doggy faces.