Art Dog:
4 Paperbacks/1 CD
Author & Illustrator: Thacher Hurd Narrator: John Beach
ISBN: 9781591125266
Length: 8 Min 40 Sec
Release Date: 3/30/1999
Reading Level: 2.5
Grades: K – 3
Description
"Part mystery, part parody, Art Dog will especially tickle kids who know a bit of art history...Funky jazz, realistic sound effects of street scenes and museum openings, and the exaggerated strokes of brushes enhance the mystery and the appeal." - AudioFile
Reviews
Review by: Booklist Magazine - October 1, 1999
"A museum gaurd by day and a closet artist by the light of a full moon, Art Dog has an instinct for art the enables him to save a valuable painting stolen from the Dogopolis Art Museum. Syncopated percussion and ambient city sounds jazz up Thacher Hurd's fanciful, 1996 story in which the lowly gaurd earns his own longed-for museum exhibition. In an imaginative tale laced with magical realism and evoked with dashing lines and swathes of color, Art Dog comes alive in this expressively narrated, buoyantly produced adaptation."