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The Boy Who Wanted to Marry His Dog - Softcover

 
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This book consists of three interconnected stories that deal with the importance of self-acceptance, quest for knowledge, love, and determination. Through the critical comic illustrations, "The Ugliest Animal in the World" reflects how the beauty industry uses media propaganda to influence and reshape children's behavior and perception. A second story, "Newton Fangle of New Sense," satirizes the contemporary fascinations with technology and newness, innovation and time-saving efficiency at the expense of the simpler, more aesthetic and leisurely pleasures of life. The title story, "The Boy Who Wanted to Marry His Dog," outlines in a comic way the passion of love and brave determination one can use to realize his or her dream. In short, these stories provide young readers with valuable notions and inspirations for self-respect, pursuit of knowledge, innovation, love, and brave decision making. They are suitable for children ages six to ten.

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About the Author:
Bill Freedman received his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Chicago in 1964. He taught at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and at the University of Haifa in Israel from 1967 to 2003. Since his retirement in 2003, he has been teaching and serving as an advisor to the English Department at the Sakhnin College for Teacher Education in the Arab town of Sakhnin. He has published two books of literary criticism, Laurence Sterne and the Origins of the Musical Novel (1978) and The Porous Sanctuary: Art and Anxiety in Poe's Short Fiction (2002), and three books of poetry, Being Them All (2005), Some Can (2009), and Last Things and After (2011). He has also published about fifty articles on literary criticism and theory and more than one hundred poems in various journals and magazines in the United States.

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  • PublisherKey Publishing House, Inc.
  • Publication date2011
  • ISBN 10 1926780108
  • ISBN 13 9781926780108
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages50

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