For dog people of all ages, a jubilant ode to our canines and the many things they love with wild abandon—especially you-know-who. From the yard to the park, from school to the market, from one end of the day to the next, dogs are full of joy. Ears flapping out the car window! Tug-of-war rope toy! Sprawling out on the couch! Getting those “good dog” treats! Wherever they go, whatever they see, dogs love it all. But what do they love most? Guess! This delightfully chaotic book from Leda Schubert and Paul Meisel portrays dogs of all shapes and colors in a laugh-out-loud celebration of our very best friends.
These fourteen funny stories tell the tale of a beleaguered boyhood down home where the dogs still run loose. As a boy growing up in the tiny backwater town of Forty-Five, South Carolina (where everybody is pretty much one beer short of a six-pack), all Mendal Dawes wants is out. It's not just his hometown that's hopeless. Mendal's father is just as bad. Embarrassing his son to death nearly every day, Mr. Dawes is a parenting guide's bad example. He buries stuff in the backyard—fake toxic barrels, imitation Burma Shave signs (BIRD ON A WIRE, BIRD ON A PERCH, FLY TOWARD HEAVEN, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH), yardstick collections. He calls Mendal "Fuzznuts" and makes him recite Marx and Durkheim daily and befriend a classmate rumored to have head lice. Mendal Dawes is a boy itching to get out of town, to take the high road and leave the South and his dingbat dad far behind—just like those car-chasing dogs. But bottom line, this funky, sometimes outrageous, and always very human tale is really about how Mendal discovers that neither he nor the dogs actually want to catch a ride, that the hand that has fed them has a lot more to offer. On the way to watching that light dawn, we also get to watch the Dawes's precarious relationship with a place whose "gene pool [is] so shallow that it wouldn't take a Dr. Scholl's insert to keep one's soles dry." To be consistently funny is a great gift. To be funny and cynical and empathetic all at the same time is George Singleton's special gift, put brilliantly into play in this new collection.
Hauntingly beautiful photographs of dogs in cars As a child, photographer Martin Usborne was once left in a car. This was not for long, but he wondered if anyone would come back. Around the same age he fell in love with dogs - they could not speak, just as he felt he was silent in that car. Thirty years later the two experiences came together in this cinematic and darkly humorous project that looks at the way humans are able to silence the animals they love best. No dogs were harmed in the making of this project.
This tail-wagger of a picture book shows different kinds of dogs doing what dogs love to do best – go for a ride! Buckle up and get ready to ride through adorable illustrations and rhymes: You’ll meet all different kinds of dogs who love to go for rides in all kinds of different vehicles. There’s the K9 dog who sniffs out crime and there’s the sports car pup who likes to ride curvy, swerve-y, and fast. Guess which big dog likes to ride in a really small car, and which dog doesn’t mind getting muddy on an off-road adventure. And don’t forget about the Dalmatians in the fire truck! Olga and Aleksey Ivanov (better known in the publishing business as O & A Ivanovs) are very much a team. They met in art school in Moscow and have worked together ever since. When they are not illustrating, they can be found hiking in the back country of the Colorado Rockies, taking in the inspiration that this amazing tableau has offered artists from around the world for centuries. They work and live with two dogs in their artist studio in Evergreen, Colorado.
Embark on a tail-wagging adventure with 'Cruisin' Canines: A Doggone Cute Car Coloring Book.' Join our four-legged friends as they hit the open road in style! This heartwarming coloring book is a celebration of the joyful bond between dogs and cars. Each page invites you to add your artistic flair to scenes of pups enjoying car rides, wind in their fur and tongues out in delight. Unleash your creativity as you color these adorable canines on their road trip escapades. Get ready for a pawsitively charming journey filled with canine cuteness and car-inspired fun. Let the coloring joy begin! Chill out and enjoy the beautiful pictures you will create: 50 gorgeous pictures to let your imagination go wild. 8.5" x 11" coloring pages that are large and ready for your pencils Sheets that have been printed separately to minimize bleed-through for easier framing. Hours of rest and art therapy A perfect present for your family and friends, yourself, and everyone else with an artistic streak.
CiCi and Axel take adventures in the back seat of the car while their owners are driving all throughout Florida doing their daily errands. As pet owners one time or another you have said "If my pet could talk what would they say"? CiCi and Axel will answer that question for you. When you go on one of their adventures, they will put a smile to your face, they will make you chuckle, and they might even bring you to tears from laughter.
Is your eyesight failing, are you not very good at driving yourself, or are you simply blind drunk? These are just a few of the reasons why it would make perfect sense to teach your dog to be your new chauffeur. Here, for the first time, is a complete guide: how to get your dog acquainted with the controls, which breeds are the safest drivers, frequently asked questions; and how to get your dog successfully through their tests. Never again need you wait for a taxi, or make that long highway drive unassisted. If you are a dog owner and a car owner, then How to Teach Your Dog to Drive will be the most useful book you buy this year, or even this decade . . .
