Elki is not my dog. . . . In fact, I don't know for sure that name is Elki. She must have had a name when we met her, but we couldn't ask her, because none of us speaks "Dog." When an exhausted stray dog enters the lives of a small group of children, the events that follow touch the whole community. This uplifting story by Elena Arevalo Melville, author and illustrator of the award-winning picture book Umbrella, was written for her friend and fellow illustrator Tonka Uzu, whose childhood memory this is.