n this heart-stealing picture book, fine artist Robert Rahway Zakanitch
gives us 16 masterful, soulful, impossibly expressive portraits of dogs, and
Maya Gottfried wonderfully captures their voices and inner personalities in
16 enchanting poems. It’s a doggie delight!
These dogs beg to be patted, tickled, scratched, and ruffled. Which one will
be your best friend?
"Every dog has his day... in this spunky collection of poems from a dog's
eye-view. These pooches have personality plus.... Gottfried's brief verses
brim with a warm humor that pet owners will readily appreciate...."
~ Publishers Weekly
"...free-verse poems that present the inner musings of 16 dogs are combined
with painterly, full-page portraits."
~ Starred review: School Library Journal
Maya Gottfried works in advertising and is a freelance writer. She lives in New York.
Robert Rahway Zakanitch is a fine artist who lives and works in New York City. He was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Grant, and his work is represented in many public collections, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Zakanitch created the paintings for this book as an extension of his Aggressive Goodness Series of large-scale dog portraits whose unabashed purpose was to evoke the notion of goodness and to remind people of their aptitude for compassion. He lives in New York.
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