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Stalwart canine Bow-Wow (Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug) sets out to retrieve his stolen doggy bed from the ornery ghost cats who live across the street in a haunted mansion. Through expert use of comic-book panels, Newgarden and Cash play with perspective and timing. The palette is predominantly grayscale; carefully placed flourishes of color amp up the humor at just the right moments.
Reviewer: Shara Hardeson
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2014
48 pp.
| Harcourt
| June, 2007
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TradeISBN 978-0-15-205813-5$12.95
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[Author2=Illustrator2]Wordless pop art–style cartoons chronicle the day-long obsession of a terrier with a flea problem. The dog's on a mission to follow the flea; his journey is a series of comical encounters. Without text, simple black lines and dots do the speaking. In the final scene, man's best friend is curled up asleep alongside dog's best friend--his bug.
40 pp.
| Viking
| May, 2001
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TradeISBN 0-670-89966-6$$14.99
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A simple first-person, rhyming text describes a girl's day at the sea in which everything is grand until she is stung by a jellyfish. Then a tantrum takes over and she is happy to wash out the salt and sand at home in the bath. A change of heart at the end ("Tonight I'll dream about the sea. / I wonder if she dreams of me?") seems too sudden. Bold black outlines bright colors in a comic-book style.