Author: Bill Freedman Illustrator: Christopher Bennett ISBN: 978-1-926780-10-8 Synopsis The book consists of three interconnected stories. They stand for the importance of self-acceptance, quest for knowledge, love and determination. Through the critical comic illustrations, The Ugliest Animal in the World reflects how the beauty industry uses media-propaganda to influence and reshape children’s perception and behaviour. A second story, Newton Fangle of New Sense, satirizes the contemporary fascinations with technology and newness, innovation and time-saving efficiency at the expense of the simpler, more aesthetic and leisurely pleasures of life. The title story, The Boy Who Wanted to Marry His Dog, outlines in a comic way the passion of love and brave determination one can use to realize his or her dream and future endeavours. In short, these stories provide young readers with valuable notions and inspirations for self-respect; pursuit of knowledge, innovation, love, and brave decision-making. They are suitable for children ages 6-10.
About the Author Bill Freedman received his Ph.D., in English literature from the University of Chicago in 1964. He taught at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He taught at the University of Haifa in Israel from 1967-2003. Since his retirement in 2003 to present, he is teaching and serving as advisor to the English Department at the Sakhnin College for Teacher Education in the Arab town of Sakhnin. He has published two books of literary criticism: Laurence Sterne and the Origins of the Musical Novel (1978) and The Porous Sanctuary: Art and Anxiety in Poe’s Short Fiction (2002); and three books of poetry: Being Them All (2005), Some Can (2009) and Last Things and After (2011). He has also published about 50 articles on literary criticism and theory and more than 100 poems in various journals and magazines in the U.S. Bill Freedman and his wife are currently living in Israel.
Illustrator Since earning a degree in Computer Animation in 2006 Chris Bennett has worked on a variety of projects, such as music videos, TV shorts and of course, book illustrations. To see more of his work, visit http://www.chrisanimations.com/
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