The Little Blue Doggy (Enhanced Edition)

by Lionel Daunais, Marie Lafrance (Illustrator), Michelle Campagne (Performed by)

Overview

Enhanced ebook (includes audio) The story of a little blue stuffed doggy who falls victim to famished mites after having been left at home alone. Upon his parent’s return, they discover his soggy red cotton tail on the floor and are faced with the challenge of putting him back together. The narrated story is followed by recordings of the songs “The Little Blue Doggy” and “Hopscotch Song”.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782924217092
Publisher:	La Montagne secrète
Publication date:	04/22/2013
Sold by:	De Marque
Format:	eBook
Pages:	37
File size:	26 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Lionel Daunais was a distinguished baritone, composer and lyricist. He was a frequent performer on Canadian radio in the 1940s, and his numerous awards include the Canadian Music Council Medal, the Calixa-Lavallée Music Award, and a posthumous Denise-Pelletier Award. In 2006, he was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Marie Lafrance has become one of Québec’s best-known children’s book illustrators, having received great critical acclaim for the albums Le Grand voyage de monsieur Caca (Les 400 Coups), La fée des bonbons (Dominique et Cie) and La Diablesse and the Baby (Annick Press) for which she was a Governor General’s Literary Award finalist.

Editorial Reviews

A refreshing antidote to the boring, innocuous fluff that passes for so much childhood literature.

Chicago Parent

"Arresting illustrations have beautiful, saturated colors and play with perspective." —Kirkus Reviews

"A refreshing antidote to the boring, innocuous fluff that passes for so much childhood literature." —Chicago Parent

From the Publisher

The lyrics to the first song of the enclosed 13-song CD comprise this book's illustrated text and provide its title. (Lyrics to the other 12 appear at the back.) Dad's a big brown bulldog in a suit and tie, and Mom's an equally large white dog in a bright red dress. Blue Doggy, made of yarn, is also impeccably dressed. One day, his parents lock him in the bathroom closet so they can go to the park to watch humans on display...in cages! Doggy cries, then dreams; but while he's asleep, hundreds of mites march under the closet door and eat him, leaving only his cotton rag tail. Mom ends the tale by starting to knit another doggy. Lafrance's arresting illustrations have beautiful, saturated colors and play with perspective. The song as performed by translator Campagne gives it a quirky spin; otherwise it seems slightly macabre. Some of theother songs are very kid-oriented (squeaky new shoes, aconversation with Grandpa), and some (like "Kangarooster Bird" and "The Wrench"--about a doomed tool romance) are appealingly silly. Sublime for some, for others not so much. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews