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Title
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City Dog, Country Dog
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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Stated first edition
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Story by Susan Stevens Crummel and Dorothy Donohue
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Creator
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Crummel, Susan Stevens
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Contributor
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Dorothy Donohue
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:37:59Z
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2004-12
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2004
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:37:59Z
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Date Issued
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2004
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Abstract
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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.
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Identifier
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0761451560 (lib. bdg.)
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5370 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Marshall Cavendish
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Tarrytown, NY
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Subject
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PZ7.C88845 Cy 2004
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One fable
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Type
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Book, Whole