Synopses & Reviews
When your pets are home alone, are you sure they're really there? Really?
Put yourself in the position of a beloved pet whose family has just installed a new pet door to the backyard. But instead of the backyard, there's a teeming city populated entirely by pets. The stores, restaurants, and theaters, the public transportation, the museums, parks, and municipal services are run by a huge assortment of well-dressed cats, dogs, rabbits, mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, ferrets, turtles, fish, and parrots. It is wonderful, but all too soon, it is time to go home. There is one very large problem -- how do you get there?
In myriad, strikingly detailed and richly hued illustrations, sister-and-brother team Susanne Santoro Whayne and Christopher Santoro present a highly original, good- humored parallel universe for all young readers to visit, explore, enjoy, and then revisit.
Synopsis
Where do your pets go when no one is at home? There is nothing unusual about the pet door Dad installed. It works just fine, and Max can go freely from the house to the backyard. At least, that's what everyone expects, including Max. Imagine his surprise when instead of emerging in the backyard, Max finds himself in Petropolis, a teeming, vibrant city populated entirely by pets whose owners are at school or at work. Are there children--and adults, for that matter--who haven't wondered what their pets do when no one is at home? Susanne Santoro Whayne and Christopher Santoro, a brother-and-sister writing and illustrating duo, imaginatively present one possibility in their depiction of a highly original, richly detailed, good humored parallel universe for all young readers to visit, explore, and enjoy.
About the Author
Susanne Santoro Whayne went to Simmons College and the Univeristy of New Hampshire. She became a teacher and a writer and is the author of close to a dozen children's books - picture books, novels, and informational books. She now lives in Waltham, Massach
Christopher Santoro attended the Rhode Island School of Design and after graduation became a full-time children's book illustrator. Among the nearly 100 books he has illustrated are a series by Dom DeLuise that include King Bob's New Clothes and Charlie th