Spooky pencil drawings and touches of offbeat humor highlight a new edition of the nursery favorite, with the famous dueling dog and cat fighting it out to the bitter end. By the author of The Sugarplum Tree.
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PreSchool-Grade 2?This poem, a fight to the death of two fabric creatures, is poorly served by Westerman's black-and-white illustrations. The often-muddy pictures do not advance the action of the poem?the gingham dog, the calico cat, and the all-seeing Chinese plate are never clearly depicted and the climax of flying fabric appears as an indistinct panorama of gray shapes. Janet Street's lively antique-shop setting (Philomel, 1990) offers readers a chance to meet the dog and cat and learn their fate through vibrant, full-color illustrations. Field's poetry deserves more than this colorless treatment.?Kathleen Whalin, Greenwich Country Day School, CT
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Ages 5-7. The text of this picture book is Eugene Field's poem "The Duel," in which the gingham dog and the calico cat have an all-night battle--"The old Dutch clock, it told me so, / And that is how I came to know"--that ends with the two eating each other up. The softly shaded pencil drawings are so light in tone that it's sometimes hard to gain depth perception or to make out exactly what is going on, particularly in the battle scenes or when patterns and shadows overlap; however, Westerman handles the draftsmanship and the characterization of inanimate objects with finesse, and this is an acceptable choice for libraries with demand for traditional poems in picture-book format. Carolyn Phelan
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This review is from: Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat, The (Hardcover)
My sons have a very battle-scarred copy of this wonderfully illustrated version of Eugene Field's poem "The Duel." Every night for months it was their requested bedtime story -- the rhythm of the lines tickled them and they loved the drawings of the dog, cat, clock, and old Dutch plate. (...)
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a warm and familar poem with whimsical drawings,
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This review is from: Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat, The (Paperback)
The poem by Field "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat" is available in a variety of anthologies for children who enjoy poetry for its own sake. It is also an excellent choice for parents to memorize and recite to their children: "The gingham dog and the calico cat/ Side by side on the table sat". But for parents who are more comfortable with a book and children who are more comfortable with pictures, this book is an excellent choice - right down to their eating each other up!
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This review is from: Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat, The (Hardcover)
This is a beautiful book - the poem was a favorite of my grandmother who used to recite it to us. The book has beautiful illustrations. The dog, especially, is very like the Doulton china salt shaker my grandmother kept on the breakfast room table. It would have been perfect, except that Amazon slapped a big ugly price sticker right on the front dust cover that is very hard to remove. I'm working on it, but some will remain! And guess what, I cannot find a place where I can send this complaint directly to amazon! So it has to be here where they probably wont look.
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