Dog Loves Drawing
  • Published: 18 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781862308657
  • Imprint: Red Fox Picture Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $19.99

Dog Loves Drawing

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4 Jan 2018
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18 Sep 2012
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A superb sequel to the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize: DOG LOVES BOOKS!

Dog loves books, but one day he receives a strange one in the post - it's blank! Soon, Dog realises that this book is not for reading, but for drawing, and before long Dog is doodling and drawing himself into a new world, full of friends and surprises.
  • Published: 18 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781862308657
  • Imprint: Red Fox Picture Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Louise Yates

Louise’s first book, A Small Surprise, was published by Random House in 2009. Her second, Dog Loves Books, debuted as a New York Times Bestseller and won the Parents’ Choice Award in the US. In the UK Dog Loves Books won the 2010 Roald Dahl Funny Prize and was nominated (along with the more recent Frank and Teddy Make Friends, 2011, and Dog Loves Drawing, 2012) for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Dog Loves Drawing has also been shortlisted for the Red House Children's Award, 2013. Dog Loves Counting was released in the UK in March 2013.

Louise is currently working on a new series, Toad and I with Random House and developing the Dog Loves series for TV with Random House Children’s Screen Entertainment.

Louise read English at Christ Church, Oxford, and studied drawing at The Prince’s Drawing School, London. As well as illustrating, she practises other forms of painting and drawing, and in 2010, won the Prince of Wales’ Award for Portrait Drawing at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Annual Exhibition. She lives and works in London.

‘Even in a golden age of illustrated children’s books, Louise Yates stands out as a superb artist and storyteller.’ A. N. Wilson

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Also by Louise Yates

Toad and I
Dog Loves Counting
Frank and Teddy Make Friends
Dog Loves Books
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Praise for Dog Loves Drawing

These are wonderful books from a wonderfully inventive writer and illustrator

Philip Ardagh, The Big Issue

A delightful story with a funny end. This is a delightful book that shoots off on a captivating adventure. In much the same way young children's play takes fast, imaginative and sometimes bizarre twists, this book does the same as dog creates a cast of crazy characters and sets off on a journey. The illustrations are fab and duck's final creation at the end a laugh out loud moment.

Chopsy Baby, http://chopsybaby.com/magazine/?p=16005

A fun and suspenseful story in itself. But the real joy of this picture book is that it is so inspiring. It is illustrated in pencil crayon (with a touch of watercolour) and every image is a work in progress, suggesting the potential for any reader to follow suit. And there is comedy in the pictures

Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times

Dog Loves Drawing shows a much-loved character in a whole new light.

Maternity and Infant magazine

...a well produced book on a classic theme...the simple line-drawings may provide inspiration to try their own hand at following Dog's example.

Martin Axford, School Librarian Magazine

Even in a golden age for illustrated children's books, Louise Yates stands out as a superb artist and storyteller

A. N. Wilson, Reader's Digest
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