A day, a dog / Gabrielle Vincent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vincent, Gabrielle.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Jour, un chien. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Dogs--Juvenile fiction.

Dogs.

Stories without words.

Dogs--Fiction.

Genre:

Stories without words.

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (inscription) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (inscription) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Naama (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

64 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 x 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Asheville, North Carolina : Front Street, 2000.

Summary:

Pictures tell the story of a dog's day, from the moment he is abandoned on the highway until he finds a friend in a young boy.

Notes:

Originally published by Éditions Duculot, Paris, 1982.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy is "Third printing".

Potok Collection copy inscribed "June 8th, 2001. Dearest Ima and Aba, This story is meant for you both. It's about getting through life; from the fear of knowing if or where a next meal will come from, to surviving adulthood as best you know how, and to the strength and sensitivity that has brought you to enduring love, and rediscovered companionship, that you have for one another. The dog has to make his own way, from an unforgiving beginning. He is hurt, angry, frightened, sad, and lonely but he continues walking. He keeps living the small undramatic moments that are the substance of a life, and his journey through his abandonment, pain, and isolation leads him to friendship and restores compassion and love to his haggard and disconnected self - a stray dog is no one's friend, with the exception of another soul who knows and understands abandonment and loss, and wants to share a home. The dog found someone who made the effort to reach out to him, and that is enough, Because if we know we are loved, then we know we have touched someone, and our life can begin from there. All my love, Naama. ... (?) on reaching 43!".

ISBN:

1886910510

9781886910515

0758723539

9780758723536

OCLC:

47861039