Dogs Think That Every Day Is Christmas [Hardcover]

Ray Bradbury (Author), Louise Reinoehl Max (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith; 1st edition (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087905753X
• ISBN-13: 978-0879057534
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,087,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ray Bradbury has published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are 'Fahrenheit 451', 'The Illustrated Man' and 'The Martian Chronicles'.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the pictures are wonderful!, December 1, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Dogs Think That Every Day Is Christmas (Hardcover)

if you think that your dog is a real person then you will love the illustrations! Dogs have personalities and you will love these dogs. Both Ray Bradbury and Louise Max have captured the essence of dogs and their unique individual character!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant enough, I suppose, April 10, 2000

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David J. Loftus (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dogs Think That Every Day Is Christmas (Hardcover)

Let's get one thing straight: Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite writers. His novel _Something Wicked This Way Comes_ is one of my personal favorites. I have read Bradbury stories aloud to live audiences, and performed a couple of them from memory as well.

But Bradbury is not much of a poet. On the spectrum from Eliot and Stevens down to McKuen, he comes much closer to the latter. Bradbury writes rich, poetic prose which works as such most of the time, but his poems are rarely more than mildly interesting or pretty thought-rambles.

So it is with "Dogs Think That Every Day Is Christmas," a Hallmark-card-ish tribute to our lively four-footed friends. The illustrations by Louise Reinoehl Max are nice enough, but hardly inspired.

What makes this inexpensive bauble collectible for Bradbury completists (which includes me -- I ordered one from Amazon, after all), or perhaps for people who are VERY sentimental about canines, is the introduction, which includes a story about a boyhood trauma relating to a dog, and the lifelong effects.

I'm glad to have a copy to add to my collection, but I doubt I'll ever open it again.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Job, Bradbury, February 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Dogs Think That Every Day Is Christmas (Hardcover)

A very good book, it was creative, and well written. Nice Job!