Summary
When a little dog appears at a family picnic, a girl and boy play with him all afternoon. They name him Willy. At day's end, they say good-bye. But the dog has won their hearts and stays on their minds. The following Saturday the family returns to the picnic grounds to look for Willy, but they are n... Full description
Summary: |
When a little dog appears at a family picnic, a girl and boy play with him all afternoon. They name him Willy. At day's end, they say good-bye. But the dog has won their hearts and stays on their minds. The following Saturday the family returns to the picnic grounds to look for Willy, but they are not alone-- the dogcatcher is looking for him, too! |
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Item Description: |
Audible signals for turning pages on track one. Based on the book by the same title retold and illustrated by Marc Simont from a true story by Reiko Sassa. |
Physical Description: |
1 sound disc (ca. 12 min.) : digital 4 3/4 cm. + 1 book (1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.) |
Audience: |
Ages 4-8. |
ISBN: |
0064436691 9780064436694 |
Author Notes: |
During his lifetime, he illustrated nearly 100 books including The Philharmonic Gets Dressed by Karla Kuskin, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord, How to Get to First Base: A Picture Book of Baseball by Red Smith, and The 13 Clocks by James Thurber. He also wrote and illustrated around ten of his own works including The Goose That Almost Got Cooked. He won a Caldecott Honor in 1950 for illustrating The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss, a Caldecott Medal in 1957 for illustrating A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry, and a Caldecott Honor in 2002 for illustrating his book The Stray Dog. He died on July 13, 2013 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) |