The author provides the perfect amount of humor to keep things from getting too heavy, and Muth's astounding watercolors lend incredible depth, guiding readers easily from emotion to emotion as well as from season to season. Just when readers may find themselves reaching for the tissues, a new friend shows up for the dog in this smart and subtle meditation on life, love and loss. Fall becomes a time for slowing down, and then in winter City Dog's friend disappears, an event foreshadowed in fall by a gentle image of the frog's "hand" resting on the sleeping dog. A picture book of this length could feel endless, but this glides along as the friends share country-frog and city-dog pastimes in spring and summer. The book follows the friends through the seasons. Review Quotes In Willems's latest, a departure from his urban sensibility as well as his first book as solely the author, a dog from the city explores new territory when he moves to the country and befriends a frog. Muth's expressive watercolors team up to tell a story that will resonate with readers of all ages.
Mo Willems' spare, poignant text and Jon J. Come spring, friendship blooms again, a little different this time. In winter, things change for City Dog and Country Frog. Through the seasons, whenever City Dog visits the country he runs straight for Country Frog's rock. In summer, they meet again and play City Dog games. You'll do, Frog says, and together they play Country Frog games. In spring, when City Dog runs free in the country for the first time, he spots Country Frog sitting on a rock, waiting for a friend. He has illustrated many award-winning books, including another New York Times best-seller, A Family of Poems, by Caroline Kennedy He is also the writer and illustrator of The Three Questions, which the New York Times called “quietly life changing.About the Book With poignant text and expressive watercolors, two Caldecott Honorees present a heartfelt reflection on the natural course of friendship-and life. Jon J Muth is the author and artist of the New York Times best-seller and Caldecott Honor book, Zen Shorts. This is the first book he has written and not illustrated. His most recent picture book is Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, of which Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books wrote: “Willems continues to be a master at conveying an amazing amount of emotion and humor using.
He has been awarded a Caldecott Honor on three occasions, and two of his Elephant and Piggie early readers have received a Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal. Mo Willems (is New York Times best-selling author and illustrator of picture books and early readers that have changed the face of children’s literature.
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