![]() Jana is the author of Seen and Not Heard (2021) and The Philosophical Child (2012). ![]() Jana Mohr Lone is the director and founder of the University of Washington Center for Philosophy for Children, an academic research center dedicated to research and practice in philosophy for children and philosophy of childhood, and she is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. The story raises questions about identity, including: The story ends with an epilogue in which Gaston and Antoinette raise a family of their own, teaching their puppies to be “whatever they wanted to be.” The puppies switch back and are happy to be with their original families once more. Both Gaston and Antoinette soon learn, however, that they don’t feel at home with their “blood” families Gaston is too gentle for the bulldogs, and Antoinette is too rough for the poodles. The parents of each family surmise that the puppies must have been accidentally switched, so Gaston goes to live with the bulldogs and Antoinette with the poodles. One day, Gaston and his family meet a family of bulldogs, and Gaston looks just like all of them except for Antoinette, a poodle, who looks just like Gaston's family. Although it does not come easily to him, Gaston learns to be prim and proper like the rest of the poodles. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the picture book Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio (illustrations by Christian Robinson), a bulldog named Gaston is part of a family of poodles. ![]()
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