Maria Popova at Brainpickings recently featured this charming childrens book, If Dogs Run Free, with lyrics by Bob Dylan, accompanied by equally colorful pictures by Scott Campbell.
Now if only dogs could play harmonica — wait, I’m sure there’s gotta be one on YouTube!
If you’ve ever had a dog, then you see poetry everyday. And who better to illustrate that than Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Mary Oliver, with her new collection of canine poems, Dog Songs.(NYT)
Seth Casteel, the scuba dog-diving photographer/creator of Underwater Dogs — has gone deeper under the surface to bring out a new child-friendly version of his best-selling dog photo book, Underwater Dogs – Kids Edition. Although both books are entertaining for kids of all ages, Casteel also uses the money from his funny pics of water-logged dogs to raise money for dog rescues.
If you’ve ever been around Jack Russell terriers, then you know they can be a handful — but in a great way! And now there’s a handsome new JRT photo book from Abrams called (what else?) I, Jack Russell, with Jack-tastic photographs by Andy Hughes. (Kitson)
I don’t think think Downward Dog has anything to do with dogs — but Yoga Dogs certainly knows how to strike a pose!
Just in time for the summer travel season comes Maddie On Things: A Super Serious Project About Dogs and Physics — a charming photo book featuring funny pics of Theron Humphrey’s coonhound, Maddie, balanced on top of all sorts of things during their cross-country road trip.
Looking for a coffeetable dog book? Frank Bruynboeck has pretty pictures of rescue dogs! (Compawssion)
In need of some last-minute stocking stuffers for the dog lover in your life? Kitson has got you covered with a whole shelf full of cute, funny dog books…
How come nobody thought of this before? Seth Casteel presents Underdog — er, Underwater Dogs, a funny, artful photo book on dogs hamming it up beneath the surface.
If you’ve gotten a chuckle out of the popular Awkward Family Photos book/blog that has stormed the Internets over the past few years…
Then you will howl at the equally funny pet version of the book, Awkward Family Pet Photos, which features a lot of uncomfortably photographed dogs.
Did you know…Dave Eggers, the famed author of A Hologram For the King, Zeitoun, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and publishing marvel behind McSweeney’s, 826Valencia, just to name a few — also has a charming book of animal prints on his impressive résumé, It Is Right To Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings…
Wendy MacNaughton has drawn up a doggone wonderful essay on the secret world of Dogwalkers…
Taschen, the stylish publisher of fancy, high-end art and design books, recently lost their mascot/in-house editorial director, Sans Souci, a super sweetie French bulldog, but they’ve commemorated him with a loving tribute on their shopping bag…
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