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Good Dog By Maya Gottfried

PUBLISHER: Penguin Random House



Good Dog
Good Dog
Available at Penguin Random House
ISBN :  9780307983510

INFORMATION

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?

REVIEWS

"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

AUTHOR/ARTIST

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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