Do You Look Like Your Dog?
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
Have you ever noticed how many people look like their dog? Have you spotted these look-alikes on the street, in the park, or at a family picnic? Have you been to a dog and owner look-alike contest at a local fair? Now you can see examples of this phenomenon in DO YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR DOG?, a book which features 100 look-alike owners and dogs. The photos comes from the popular Website www.doyoulooklikeyourdog.com, which gets thousands of hits a day, and the book features about 50 photos sent in by owners from all over the world and the rest taken by author Gini Graham Scott at dog shows in the San Francisco Bay Area. The book has even become a game introduced by Briarpatch and a song featured on YouTube, MySpace, and other sites. The dogs range from toy Poms and Miniature Pinschers to Cocker Spaniels, Golden Retrievers, Irish Wolfhounds, Siberian Huskies, and many more. The book also includes a brief introduction about how the hundreds of breeds developed and the reason that many people do resemble like their dog in many ways, from their hair style and hair color to their body build, personality, and dress. So see if you can find your favorite dog-owner look-alike and enjoy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's hard to go too terribly wrong with a picture book about people who look like their dogs. After all, as Scott says, it's a"phenomenon that catches our attention and amuses everyone the world over." Of course, the whole schtick is to display humans and canines who look alike; in that respect, the book is a bit inconsistent. Sometimes the resemblance is downright uncanny, such as the one between a dark curly-haired woman who poses with her dark curly-haired poodles. At other times, the subjects look about as much alike as, well, a dog and a person do. Occasionally, the comparison does a deep disservice to the animal in question. A woman with a mullet and a bad perm doesn't really seem to have a lot in common with her sleek, perfectly coifed collies, for example. The book could have benefited from a little more commentary and backstory on its subjects; with her Ph.D. in sociology, Scott probably had some interesting observations. But, these flaws aside, this volume is a fine set piece that provides harmless, and humorous, entertainment.
