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Summary
Bow-Wow may look like your average terrier. The streets he walks may seem familiar. But just around the corner, things get a little unusual.
With nary a word, Mark Newgarden and Megan Montague Cash have created a story about a bold new doggy who goes where no doggy has gone before. With a spring in his step and his tail only occasionally between his legs, Bow-Wow faces down every foe--well, almost every foe--in his path.
Step aside, mutts. There's a new dog in town.
Author Notes
MARK NEWGARDEN is a cartoonist, author, screenwriter and creator of many novelties for children including the tremendously popular Garbage Pail Kids. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. MEGAN MONTAGUE CASH has illustrated for The Children's Museum of Manhattan, Nick Jr. Magazine, Eboo toys and others. She is also the author and illustrator of I Saw The Sea and the Sea Saw Me. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 1-3-Bow-Wow wakes up one morning, has a snack, and notices a small black bug. He follows it out of the house and down the street and encounters more dogs and more bugs of various sizes and stripes before returning home and going to sleep. The clever circular plot is funny, quirky, and even suspenseful, working well as a wordless picture book. The simple, bold, expressive illustrations, outlined with heavy black line, challenge viewers to follow the visual story line and sequences of events. Single-page and full-spread layouts combine with comic-strip panels to show the perspective of Bow-Wow, the other canines, and the bugs. The ingenuity and humor of this book will be most appreciated by youngsters who have the patience and interest to examine and decode the pictures.-Rachel Kamin, Temple Israel Libraries & Media Center, West Bloomfield, MI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
This wordless sequence of comic panels, the first in a planned Bow-Wow Books series, is an eminently charming and surreal twist on what might otherwise be just another of the dog days of summer. Garbage Pail Kids creator Newgarden and Cash (What Makes the Seasons?) create a kind of silent feature, composing each orderly panel with a beefy black line and saturated digital colors. Bow-Wow himself, a golden-yellow terrier, has oval-dot eyes and an expressive brow that convey a broad range of emotions as he goes about his day. The action centers on his pursuit of a pesky black bug, which hops to the edge of his dog dish in the morning. With his nose to the ground and brow furrowed in concentration, Bow-Wow tracks the bug down the sidewalk where, in swift succession, gags pile up and absurdities bloom. Bow-Wow encounters a Doppelganger and the duo (as well as their respective insects) engages in an increasingly zany series of mirrored movements. Bow-Wow then meets an enormous lookalike who has been pursuing an equally oversize insect; when Bow-Wow flees this pair of behemoths, he rounds a corner to find a wild convoy of dogs sniffing after bugs. (Turning yet another corner, he is stunned to discover an array of giant insects chasing after minuscule dogs.) Newgarden and Cash use a varied layout of panels to great effect (three spreads are dedicated to close-ups of Bow-Wow's blinking disbelief as the enormous creepy-crawlies charge toward him), making this outing, which in less skilled hands might have read like a Sunday comic strip, feel enormously fresh and modern. Ages 3-7. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
(Preschool, Primary) Appealing, wordless Pop Art-style cartoons chronicle the day-long obsession of a terrier with a flea problem. It's not that he's itchy and infested. It's that, from the moment the single tiny bug perches on his food bowl at breakfast, he's on a mission to follow it wherever it goes. Without dialogue bubbles, simple black lines and dots do the speaking -- e.g., down-slanted eyebrows convey the pooch's determination as he trots along the sidewalk behind the crawling black dot. His journey is a series of comical encounters, including confrontations with some pretty intimidating things going in the opposite direction. Turning tail and fleeing from a massive pack of other dogs, all trailing dots of their own, he runs into something even more intimidating: a mass of giant bugs -- ants, centipedes, beetles, flies -- scuttling after identical tiny black dogs. Our terrier is relieved to make it back home; and, in the final scene, we see man's best friend curled up to sleep alongside dog's best friend -- his bug. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
A little black speck of a bug leads a feisty yellow terrier on an increasingly surreal trip around his neighborhood in a brilliantly whimsical wordless romp. When the bug descends on Bow-Wow's dog dish, a scowl descends on his features and off he sets to teach it a lesson. Comic-strip panels advance the action with perfect pacing, the Photoshopped sameness of Bow-Wow's suburban neighborhood providing a bland, impossibly regular background to ever more zany situations, which include meeting mirror images of himself and the bug, encountering giant-sized versions of both himself and the bug and armies of bug-pursuing dogs and dog-pursuing bugs. Long shots and close-ups hilariously assist in the progress of the narrative, cinematic convention adapting perfectly to the medium. The aforementioned blandly regular background combines with bold, clean lines and a sunnily uncomplicated palette to keep what might in other hands be a rather terrifying journey into 1950s horror/sci fi from overwhelming young readers. Call it a kinder, gentler Twilight Zone in which the doughty protagonist is allowed to return home to bowl and bed at the end of the day. Thoroughly inspired. (Picture book. 4-10) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.