Perfectly told in a brief text and Satoshi Kitamura’s trade mark witty illustrations School for Puppies is a delight to share through reading aloud and to pour over and read again and again.
Puppy misses his owner Lucy when she goes to school all day. What can she be doing there? he wonders.
When Puppy meets a pack of puppies all heading off to their own school he begins his own school experience. The teacher, Mr Terrier, tells the puppies to scratching behind their ears to keep them clean, to wag their tails to show other puppies you are friendly, to howl when they are lonely and, most important of all, to leave their messages on lamp posts so that they can always find your own way home.
Puppy follows the others out of school but soon gets lost! He knows Lucy will be home soon and he has to find his way back. Luckily, he remembers everything he learnt in school!
An adorable look at the world through the eyes of a beloved puppy from multi-award-winning picture book legend Satoshi Kitamura.
Every day, Emily goes to school and leaves her puppy at home. But today, determined to find out what school is, he sets off on an adventure to go to Puppy School! The young dogs learn important skills such as scratching behind their ears, learning to sleep wherever they go, and most importantly, how to leave a scent trail - which comes in handy when our puppy finds himself separated from his friends...
Can he follow the trail that'll lead him back home to his Emily?
Subtle message of the value of school, and how you can put into practice those skills you learn, just like the puppy did!
Satoshi Kitamura was born in 1956 in Tokyo. He says that when he was young he read comics and admits that these have had a great influence on his style. He says he was also influenced by anything visual from a tin of sardines to the fine art of the East and the West. He was not trained as an artist, but at the age of 19 began to do commercial work. From 1976-1979 he worked as a commercial artist in Japan, working as an illustrator for adverts and magazines. He moved to London in 1979 and worked mainly at designing greeting cards. He started illustrating for Andersen Press in 1981 after he had an exhibition of his work at the Neal Street Gallery in Covent Garden.
