Carl's Afternoon in the Park (ISBN 0-374-31104-8) is a children's picture book by Alexandra Day.

The book starts when a woman walking in the park with her baby daughter and her rottweiler Carl run into a friend of hers.

The two friends decide to go off to have some tea and leave the baby alone with the rottweiler and the rottie pup.

At the end of the book, the women return to express that they hope the dog and baby weren't bored after having been left alone too long.

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