Broadway Barks: With CD - Hardcover

Peters, Bernadette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1934706000 ISBN 13: 9781934706008

Publisher: Blue Apple Books, 2008

Synopsis

In a park in New York City lives a lonely little dog. He remembers when he used to get taken for walks, fed dinner every night, and told he was a good dog. Now, he's all alone and must fend for himself. But everything changes one day when he sees a lady reading in the park and decides to follow her—all the way to a place where he might become a star!

With a story by actress Bernadette Peters and mixed-media collage illustrations by Liz Murphy, Broadway Barks is a warm and appealing story of loss, reunion, and nurturing, complete with a happy ending.

This beautiful package includes a jacket with foil touches as well as an exclusive CD featuring a reading of the story and an original song written and sung by Bernadette Peters.

About this title

About the Author:

Bernadette Peters has had a dazzling stage career on Broadway and in theaters and concert halls around the world. She is cofounder, with Mary Tyler Moore, of Broadway Barks, an annual star-studded animal adoption event benefiting animal shelters throughout the New York City area. Her passion for animals and her work on behalf of the organization are the inspiration behind this book.

Liz Murphy was born in England and currently lives with her family in Montclair, New Jersey. She is a graduate of the Kingston Art College, where she majored in graphic design, and the creator of two previous Blue Apple picture books, ABC Doctor and A Dictionary of Dance.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 2—Well, it is what it is: an idealized promotional piece for Broadway Barks, the annual New York City pet adopt-a-thon founded by Peters and Mary Tyler Moore in 1998. Sad little Douglas is abandoned in Central Park, where no one walks him or feeds him or loves him. He is befriended and taken into a smiling and willing driver's yellow cab by a pretty red-haired stranger (Peters) and taken to Shubert Alley, where Moore emcees an adoption pet show/pageant. Obedient and adorable, Douglas meets a little girl, is given a new name, Kramer, and is taken to live happily-ever-after with his new family. Murphy's bright mixed-media cartoon illustrations include snips of measuring tape, telegrams, and pieces of printed matter that become the buildings, trees, and sidewalks of Manhattan. Douglas/Kramer is a cute concoction of gray flannel and a fine mutt of a mascot for this message, which is accompanied by a CD on which Peters reads the story. Royalties will be donated to the cause. An NYC-centric companion for Maribeth Boelt's Before You Were Mine (Putnam, 2007) and Bob Graham's Let's Get a Pup! Said Kate (Candlewick, 2001).—Kathy Krasniewicz, Perrot Library, Old Greenwich, CT
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About this edition

• Publisher: Blue Apple Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1934706000
• ISBN 13: 9781934706008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Murphy Liz