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Black Cat

August 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Black Cat is the rhythmic, melodious story of a black cat who moves through the urban environment of New York City — and not the opulent neighborhood that redtailed hawk Pale Male chose as his home.  Christopher Myers’s graphic collage illustrations captivate us as he takes us through some of the aspects of urban life [...]

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Gowanus Dogs

August 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Dark subject matter and equally dark drawings comprise Gowanus Dogs, the story of a family of homeless dogs and the homeless man who changes their lives and whose life is in turn changed through knowing them.  Though the illustrations remain in the same shades-of-grey tenor throughout the book, our spirits are lifted [...]

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Hero Cat

January 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL After much searching in winter weather, a homeless cat finds an abandoned building to deliver her kittens. When she leaves her kittens to find some nourishment, she returns to find the building up in flames. As the firefighters work to put out the fire, the mother cat works to save her kittens, walking through the [...]

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The Dog Who Belonged to No One

November 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Our dog is supposed to be dead.  Picked up as a skin-and-bones stray, he was scheduled to be euthanized in a high-kill shelter a few days before a rescue transport van arrived.  A shelter worker hid him, hoping the transporter had room for him in her van and her small rescue facility.  [...]

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