Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda
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<p><p>bob Never Knew He Was A Human Boy, After Being Abandoned Outside A Beauty Parlor And Then Raised By A Bunch Of Dogs. He Barked At Businessmen And Burrowed Under Bushes. Fortunately For Bob, Dimple-faced Dorinda, A Distressed Damsel Down On Her Luck, Found Him And Taught Him How To Be A Real Boy. When A Bureaucratic Blunder Puts The Town In Jeopardy, Only Bashful Bob And Doleful Dorinda Can Save Everyone From A Dreadful Disaster.<p>combined With Dušan Petricic's Whimsical Illustrations, Margaret Atwood's Cleverly Written, Alliterative Picture Book Will Challenge And Delight Readers Of All Ages.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>in This Alliterative Trifle By Atwood, Who Previously Wielded Consonants In Princess Prunella And The Purple Peanut, Two Homeless Urchins Form A Fabulous Friendship. Bob Has Been Abandoned... Beside A Beauty Parlour By His Mother, Whose New Hairdo Leaves Her So Blinded By Her Burnished Brilliance That Baby Bob Was Blotted From Her Brain. Three Dogs (a Boxer, A Beagle And A Borzoi, Naturally) Adopt Bob, Who Takes To Hiding In Bushes And Barking. Not Far Off Lives Dorinda, Whose Parents Disappeared In A Dreadful Disaster. Her Wealthy Relatives Didn't Dole Out A Dime, Make Her Sweep And Wash (drat These Darned Dirty Dishes, She Curses). In Ink-line Illustrations Washed With Monochrome Watercolor, Petricic Color-codes Bob In Warm Gold And Ochre, And Dorinda In Lavender, Pink And Blue. When One Child's Tale Of Woe Takes The Foreground, The Other Can Be Seen In The Distance, So They Are Never Far From One Another. The Two Finally Meet, And Dorinda Coaxes Bob To Read And Speak; Together They Pacify A Raging Buffalo That Escapes From A Zoo. Ultimately, Atwood Restores Their Parents, Who Bought A Bungalow For All, Dogs Included. Happy Ending Notwithstanding, The Title Waifs Are Crushed Under The Perversely Prolific Wordplay, And The Excessive Bs And Ds Lose Their Comedic Zing After A Few Paragraphs. Ages 5-up. (nov.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.</p>
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda Atwood, Margaret
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<p><p>bob Never Knew He Was A Human Boy, After Being Abandoned Outside A Beauty Parlor And Then Raised By A Bunch Of Dogs. He Barked At Businessmen And Burrowed Under Bushes. Fortunately For Bob, Dimple-faced Dorinda, A Distressed Damsel Down On Her Luck, Found Him And Taught Him How To Be A Real Boy. When A Bureaucratic Blunder Puts The Town In Jeopardy, Only Bashful Bob And Doleful Dorinda Can Save Everyone From A Dreadful Disaster.<p>combined With Dušan Petricic's Whimsical Illustrations, Margaret Atwood's Cleverly Written, Alliterative Picture Book Will Challenge And Delight Readers Of All Ages.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>in This Alliterative Trifle By Atwood, Who Previously Wielded Consonants In Princess Prunella And The Purple Peanut, Two Homeless Urchins Form A Fabulous Friendship. Bob Has Been Abandoned... Beside A Beauty Parlour By His Mother, Whose New Hairdo Leaves Her So Blinded By Her Burnished Brilliance That Baby Bob Was Blotted From Her Brain. Three Dogs (a Boxer, A Beagle And A Borzoi, Naturally) Adopt Bob, Who Takes To Hiding In Bushes And Barking. Not Far Off Lives Dorinda, Whose Parents Disappeared In A Dreadful Disaster. Her Wealthy Relatives Didn't Dole Out A Dime, Make Her Sweep And Wash (drat These Darned Dirty Dishes, She Curses). In Ink-line Illustrations Washed With Monochrome Watercolor, Petricic Color-codes Bob In Warm Gold And Ochre, And Dorinda In Lavender, Pink And Blue. When One Child's Tale Of Woe Takes The Foreground, The Other Can Be Seen In The Distance, So They Are Never Far From One Another. The Two Finally Meet, And Dorinda Coaxes Bob To Read And Speak; Together They Pacify A Raging Buffalo That Escapes From A Zoo. Ultimately, Atwood Restores Their Parents, Who Bought A Bungalow For All, Dogs Included. Happy Ending Notwithstanding, The Title Waifs Are Crushed Under The Perversely Prolific Wordplay, And The Excessive Bs And Ds Lose Their Comedic Zing After A Few Paragraphs. Ages 5-up. (nov.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.</p>