about the book
Boot and Shoe are two adorable, floppy-eared dogs from the same litter, and now they have the great fortune of living together in the same house! They share a food dish. They use the same tree in the yard to pee on. They even sleep in the same bed.
But during the day, you can’t find them together at all. Why?
Because Boot is napping and keeping watch on the back porch. He’s a back porch sort of dog. And Shoe is napping and keeping watch on the front porch. He’s a front porch kind of dog.
One day, a squirrel gets to taunting both dogs by running around the house, front and back porch. Boot takes off to chase it. Shoe takes off to chase it.
The squirrel gets away, and the dogs find themselves on the wrong porch in the end. Each decides that he has to safeguard this porch until the other gets back to claim it again.
They may have to wait a long time…
about the author/illustrator
Born in Los Angeles, California, Marla Frazee now lives in Pasadena with her husband, three rambunctious boys, and Rocket the dog. Her days are filled with piles of laundry, bassoon lessons, ringing telephones, and noisy neighborhood kids!
Whenever she has time, Marla retreats to her studio, a little one-room cottage nestled under a tree in her backyard. There she writes and illustrates children’s books—a job she has always wanted to do.
As a youngster, Marla crayoned her own stories, haphazardly stapling them into books. She considered becoming an archaeologist but her school vocational testing said she should become a poultry farmer! Instead she studied illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Marla graduated from college on Friday and started working in the animation department at Disney on Monday! Six weeks later she quit (she didn’t like punching a time clock) and started doing freelance illustrations.
It took ten years for Marla to get her first book published and another five for book number two. Besides writing and illustrating, this Caldecott Honor winner has been teaching children’s book illustration at her old college for twenty years!
Sources :
Author website
Author interview : The Children’s Book Review
Author interview : Publishers Weekly
Author interview : Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Author interview : Zulkey
Also by Marla Frazee:
Stars by Mary Lyn Ray. Beach Lane Books. 2011.
The Boss Baby. Beach Lane Books. 2010.
All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon. Beach Lane Books. 2009.
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever. Harcourt Children’s Books. 2008.
Santa Claus : The World’s Number One Toy Expert. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 2005.
Roller Coaster. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 2003.
Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 2001.
Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild! by Mem Fox. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 2000.
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