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No Pets Allowed by Irene Watts & Kathryn E. Shoemaker (Tradewind $8.95)
When matthew moves to the city he has to leave his dog Lucky behind. He and his mom now live in a Vancouver apartment, an apartment with a lot of rules, sternly enforced by Mr. Leo, the building manager.
In Irene Watts' No Pets Allowed, with illustrations by Kathryn E. Shoemaker, Fred, who's "a million times better than a fish,"; has a very nice leash, pulls the covers off the bed and, when Mr. Leo's not around, wrestles with Matthew on the front lawn.
The only glitch is that Fred's an invisible dog. That small detail doesn't stop Matthew and Fred from putting the run on a brick-wielding, window-smashing car thief. And when the apartment's residents sign a petition demanding a guard dog to prevent further vandalism, Matthew ends up with not one, but two dogs-Lucky and Fred.
Berlin-born Irene Watts, who's made her home in B.C. for the past twenty years, arrived in Great Britain as a child via Kindertransport, the rescue movement that from 1938 to the start of World War II moved 10,000 children (none of them accompanied by parents) out of Nazi Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
In 2001, Watts was honored with a Playwrights' Union of Canada lifetime membership for her outstanding contribution to Canadian drama and theatre. 978-1-896580-9-44
[BCBW 2011]
In Irene Watts' No Pets Allowed, with illustrations by Kathryn E. Shoemaker, Fred, who's "a million times better than a fish,"; has a very nice leash, pulls the covers off the bed and, when Mr. Leo's not around, wrestles with Matthew on the front lawn.
The only glitch is that Fred's an invisible dog. That small detail doesn't stop Matthew and Fred from putting the run on a brick-wielding, window-smashing car thief. And when the apartment's residents sign a petition demanding a guard dog to prevent further vandalism, Matthew ends up with not one, but two dogs-Lucky and Fred.
Berlin-born Irene Watts, who's made her home in B.C. for the past twenty years, arrived in Great Britain as a child via Kindertransport, the rescue movement that from 1938 to the start of World War II moved 10,000 children (none of them accompanied by parents) out of Nazi Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
In 2001, Watts was honored with a Playwrights' Union of Canada lifetime membership for her outstanding contribution to Canadian drama and theatre. 978-1-896580-9-44
[BCBW 2011]
Submitted on June 3, 2011 in By David.
