Good Dogs/Bad Dogs/2 Books in 1 - Hardcover

Ghigna, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 156282290X ISBN 13: 9781562822903

Publisher: Hyperion, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 156282290X
• ISBN 13: 9781562822903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1
• Illustrator: Catrow David