Item
City Dog, Country Dog
- Title
- en_US City Dog, Country Dog
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Stated first edition
- en_US Story by Susan Stevens Crummel and Dorothy Donohue
- Creator
- en_US Crummel, Susan Stevens See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Dorothy Donohue
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:37:59Z
- en_US 2004-12
- en_US 2004
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:37:59Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2004
- Abstract
- en_US This is a delightful, playful book. It plays particularly well with Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It works with photographs of paper constructions. The papers are textured, layered, and pasted down. The basic story is about two dogs who love to paint: Vincent van Dog and Henri T. La Pooch. They meet at art school. Much about the two becomes a study in contrasts. Their encounters, like the disastrous visit by Henri to the country, become occasions for references to appropriate paintings, like Starry Night. The city meal is at a restaurant. Later the owner of a night club throws them out for joining the can-can dancers in their dance. There is a happy, surprising, novel resolution: they meet on the beach! The moral is Vive la difference! Along the way the book manages to teach several French expressions on each two-page spread. I enjoy the creativity and taste evident in this production.
- Identifier
- en_US 0761451560 (lib. bdg.)
- en_US 5370 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Marshall Cavendish
- en_US Tarrytown, NY
- Subject
- en_US PZ7.C88845 Cy 2004 See all items with this value
- en_US One fable See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books