Some Swell Pup: Or Are You Sure You Want a Dog?
by Maurice Sendak, Matthew Margolis
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The Wise Passerby helps two children establish a happy relationship with their new rambunctious puppy.Tags
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Two children receive a puppy who acts up but is too young for training school. A stranger tries to teach the children how to behave so as to help the puppy adjust to their home.
The concept of this book is a good one -- if you're going to wish for a pet, you should know how to take care of it when it arrives -- but the execution leaves something wanting. The children are just absolutely horrid and barely seem to learn their lesson about treating the puppy well. They spend more time arguing about the puppy's sex (which is pretty irrelevant) than anything else. The concept of a random stranger helping them is really bizarre, and it would have made more sense for their parent(s) to do so. The illustrations are okay if you like cartoonish show more style ones. show less
The concept of this book is a good one -- if you're going to wish for a pet, you should know how to take care of it when it arrives -- but the execution leaves something wanting. The children are just absolutely horrid and barely seem to learn their lesson about treating the puppy well. They spend more time arguing about the puppy's sex (which is pretty irrelevant) than anything else. The concept of a random stranger helping them is really bizarre, and it would have made more sense for their parent(s) to do so. The illustrations are okay if you like cartoonish show more style ones. show less
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Maurice Sendak was born on June 10, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York. While in high school, he worked part time as an illustrator for All-American Comics adapting the Mutt and Jeff newspaper comic strip to a comic book format. His first professional illustrations were for a physics textbook, Atomics for the Millions, published in 1947. He later worked show more as a window-display director for F.A.O. Schwartz while attending night school at the Art Students League. In 1950, he illustrated his first children's book The Wonderful Farm by Marcel Aymé. He wrote his first children's book Kenny's Window in 1956 and went on to become a prolific author-illustrator. His works include Chicken Soup with Rice; In the Night Kitchen; Outside Over There; Higglety Pigglety Pop; The Sign on Rosie's Door; We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy; Brundibar; Bumble Ardy; and My Brother's Book. He received numerous awards including the Caldecott medal for Where The Wild Things Are in 1964, the Hans Christian Andersen International Medal in 1970, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and the National Medal of Arts in 1996. Characters from two of his books were the basis of an animated television special, Really Rosie, which first aired in 1975. He was also the set designer and lyricist for a subsequent off-Broadway musical of the same title. He was the lyricist, as well as the set and costume designer, for the original production of an opera based on Where The Wild Things Are in 1980. In addition, he has designed sets and costumes for performances of operas by Mozart, Prokofiev, and other classical composers. He died due to complications from a recent stroke on May 8, 2012 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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