Puccini and the Prowlers

By (author): Adele Wiseman

Illustrated by: Kim La Fave

A humorous tale about a hard-barking pup who realizes his job is to expose prowlers – but can’t figure out how to identify them. He accosts the postman, the milkman, innocent visitors, family members sneaking home late at night and generally makes, an unholy nuisance of himself. When a real prowler does come, Puccini decides, he’s much too nice to mean any harm. The family decides he’s no watchdog, but Puccini at least makes a noise like one, “which is enough to fool all honest people.”

AUTHOR

Kim La Fave

Kim La Fave, a Governor General’s Award-winning artist, is the illustrator of Amos’s Sweater (by Janet Lunn) — winner of the Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for illustration — Follow That Star (by Kenneth Oppel), I Am Small (by Cherrie Fitch), the bestselling The Bones and Skeleton Book (by Steven Cumbaa) and many other children’s books. He lives in Roberts Creek, BC.


AUTHOR

Adele Wiseman

Adele Wiseman was one of Canada’s most distinguished writers, author of the Canadian classic The Sacrifice.

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A humorous tale about a hard-barking pup who realizes his job is to expose prowlers – but can’t figure out how to identify them. He accosts the postman, the milkman, innocent visitors, family members sneaking home late at night and generally makes, an unholy nuisance of himself. When a real prowler does come, Puccini decides, he’s much too nice to mean any harm. The family decides he’s no watchdog, but Puccini at least makes a noise like one, “which is enough to fool all honest people.”

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Dimensions:

32 Pages
9in * 9in * 0.75in
0.75lb

Published:

January 01, 1992

Publisher:

Nightwood Editions

ISBN:

9780889711549

Book Subjects:

JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dogs

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Language:

eng

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