Petropolis - Hardcover

Whayne, Suzanne Santoro; Whayne, Susanne Santoro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1593540019 ISBN 13: 9781593540012

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2003

Synopsis

When your pets are home alone, are you sure they're really there? Really?
Put yourself in the position of a beloved pet whose family has just installed a new pet door to the backyard. But instead of the backyard, there's a teeming city populated entirely by pets. The stores, restaurants, and theaters, the public transportation, the museums, parks, and municipal services are run by a huge assortment of well-dressed cats, dogs, rabbits, mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, ferrets, turtles, fish, and parrots. It is wonderful, but all too soon, it is time to go home. There is one very large problem -- how do you get there?
In myriad, strikingly detailed and richly hued illustrations, sister-and-brother team Susanne Santoro Whayne and Christopher Santoro present a highly original, good- humored parallel universe for all young readers to visit, explore, enjoy, and then revisit.

About this title

About the Author:

Susanne Santoro Whayne went to Simmons College and the Univeristy of New Hampshire. She became a teacher and a writer and is the author of close to a dozen children's books - picture books, novels, and informational books. She now lives in Waltham, Massach

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 2–After his owners install a new pet door and then leave for the day, a dog detects some enticing aromas coming from the other side. Jumping through, Max leaves the land of black and white and finds himself in a new world full of colors. Petropolis is a pet's dream: "Ratzilla" and "The Dogfather" are showing at the local theater, a restaurant serves liver pizzas, and an art museum houses works such as Lizardo da Vinci's "Mousa Lisa." Best of all, there are no leashes or humans making rules. Max has a great day but soon realizes that he doesn't know how to get home. Happily, he figures out that he should follow his nose–literally–and, after tracking his people's scents, squeezes back through the door just in time to greet them. The rhyming story is adequate, but the anthropomorphism is carried a bit too far and falls flat. After Max lands in Petropolis, he suddenly finds himself magically changed, walking on two feet and wearing clothes. He loses his animal traits and becomes all too human. Santoro's watercolor-and-ink illustrations are sufficient; the layout is filled with details, somewhat like the work of Richard Scarry.–Roxanne Burg, Orange County Public Library, CA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1593540019
• ISBN 13: 9781593540012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Santoro Christopher