Good Dog - Softcover

Gottfried, Maya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553113836 ISBN 13: 9780553113839

Publisher: Dragonfly Books, 2008

Synopsis

In this heart-stealing picture book, fine artist Robert Rahway Zakanitch gives us 16 masterful, soulful, impossibly expressive portraits of dogs, and Maya Gottfried wonderfully captures their voices and inner personalities in 16 enchanting poems. It’s a doggie delight!

These dogs beg to be patted, tickled, scratched, and ruffled. Which one will be your best friend?

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In this heart-stealing picture book, fine artist Robert Rahway Zakanitch gives us 16 masterful, soulful, impossibly expressive portraits of dogs, and Maya Gottfried wonderfully captures their voices and inner personalities in 16 enchanting poems. It's a doggie delight!

These dogs beg to be patted, tickled, scratched, and ruffled. Which one will be your best friend?
From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author:

Maya Gottfried works in advertising and is a freelance writer. She lives in New York.
Robert Rahway Zakanitch is a fine artist who lives and works in New York City. He was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Grant, and his work is represented in many public collections, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Zakanitch created the paintings for this book as an extension of his Aggressive Goodness Series of large-scale dog portraits whose unabashed purpose was to evoke the notion of goodness and to remind people of their aptitude for compassion. He lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dragonfly Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0553113836
• ISBN 13: 9780553113839
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40