After all, PART-TIME DOG is a picture book. On second thought, perhaps those parents didn't try to track down a copy. I bet the sight of PART-TIME DOG - a frequent book club selection in the 1960s - brought back memories for a lot of babyboomers, who probably rushed out to get copies for their own kids. And in the photo he's shown reading the 1965 picture book PART-TIME DOG by Jane Thayer (pen name of Catherine Woolley, who died a few years ago at age 100.) This past week I was reading the new issue of Vanity Fair and came across a squib on Pee Wee Herman's upcoming Broadway show.
"We've got to count him as a baby thrown to the wolves," said Dorothea.Īnonymous is trying to track down this mysterious painting - and now I am too! It does seem like a picture I've seen at some point.but maybe I just conjured it up in my head when I read the above books.Īnd can you think of any other children's books that make reference to it?ĪND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT IN VANITY FAIR!Ĭhildren's books pop up in the most unexpected places. "They won't kill him even if they catch him," said Peggy. There is also a possible reference in Arthur Ransome's GREAT NORTHERN: Through Randy's panic-stricken mind flashed the image of a picture on the Office wall: an old steel engraving entitled 'Pursued by Siberian Wolves.'") They bounded and snapped and barked their great hollow, brutal barks. "It's called 'Pursued by Siberian Wolves!'") and THEN THERE WERE FIVE ("The dogs were loving it. It's mentioned in two books by Elizabeth Enright, THE FOUR-STORY MISTAKE ("Look, here's a whole story pasted up illustrations and everything. "I always assumed she was sacrificing her baby to the wolves to allow those in the sleigh time to escape." "She was about to toss a baby to the wolves," I said. "Do you remember what the woman in the back of the sleigh was doing?" "Have you two children ever seen that painting of the Russians in a sleigh being chased across the snow-covered steppes by wolves?" Here's the reference in HENRY REED'S JOURNEY by Keith Robertson: I always love getting comments on this blog - keep 'em coming (well, except for you spammers from gift shops in Malaysia and India.) Last week an anonymous reader left an intriguing comment about a painting that has been referenced in at least four children's books. THE TENTH GOOD THING ABOUT BARNEY by Judith ViorstĪLEX ICICLE : A ROMANCE IN TEN TORRID CHAPTERS by Robert Kaplow TEN THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE by Daniel Ehrenhaft TEN LITTLE FINGERS AND TEN LITTLE TOES by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury Here are TEN children's books to celebrate the day: Speaking of numbers, do you know what today is (besides my mother's birthday)? Hey, if Julie's blog contains the number 7 and Betsy's features the number 8.maybe I should add the number 9 to the title of my blog, just to keep things nice and sequential.
Then, after finishing the chapter, I was too tired to blog all week! Last weekend I was facing a chapter deadline on the book I'm writing for Candlewick with Julie Danielson of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast and Elizabeth Bird, aka Fuse #8 from School Library Journal.
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