Doctor De Soto is a picture book for children written and illustrated by William Steig and first published in 1982. It features a mouse-dentist who must help a fox with a toothache without being eaten.
Steig and Barbara Cooney (Miss Rumphius) shared the 1983 National Book Award for Children's Books in category Picture Books, Hardcover.
Doctor De Soto was a Newbery Honor Book, one of the shortest to earn that honorable mention, only 32 pages.
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