Good Dogs/Bad Dogs/2 Books in 1 [Hardcover]

Charles Ghigna (Author), David Catrow (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1992

When read front to back, rhyming text highlights a dog's good features but flip the book over and upside-down and the bad things are exposed.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

These witty picture books will unite both those antipathetic and those affectionate to animals, as Ghigna and Catrow rather literally articulate the concept of a flip side. "Good Cats," says one cover, which shows a fat feline langorously reading "The Owl and the Pussycat" to a circle of rapt mice. Flip the volume over and the cover, emblazoned with "Bad Cats," depicts a cat--armed with a rifle and clad in hunter's togs--intently staking out a birdhouse. Inside, two series of rhyming verses (one dedicated to the virtues of the dog or cat, the other enumerating its vices, the two meeting in the middle of the book) declaim the beasts' opposing natures. In illustrations somewhat reminiscent of Ronald Searle's felines, Catrow contributes extremely inventive scenarios: "cats land always on their feet" captions a picture of a feline who, having crashed through the roof into a living room, stands atop a cluster of shingles; "dogs are loyal, dogs defend" accompanies a hound, outfitted in a military helmet, that has laid sandbags around its doghouse. By turns slapstick and sophisticated, the humor here will snare adults as well as children. All ages.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion (Juv); 1st edition (September 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156282290X
• ISBN-13: 978-1562822903
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 4.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,738,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Charles Ghigna (FATHER GOOSE) is the author of more than 50 award-winning books from Random House, Disney, Hyperion, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Abrams and other publishers. His books have been featured on ABC's "Good Morning America," PBS and NPR. He is a poet, children's author, speaker, and nationally syndicated feature writer who promotes the love of poetry and children's literature throughout the world and the author of more than 5000 poems for children and adults. His poems have appeared in hundreds of textbooks, anthologies, magazines from The New Yorker and Harper's to Cricket and Highlights. His poems also appear in the national SAT and ACT tests. He has served as poetry editor of The English Journal for the National Council of Teachers of English and has presented poetry programs at the Library of Congress, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the American Library in Paris, the International Schools of South America and at hundreds of other schools, colleges, conferences, libraries, book fairs, and literary events throughout the world.

For more information, please visit the Father Goose web site at www.FatherGoose.com