World According to Dog Poems and Teen Voices

Soon after Merlin became part of her family, Joyce Sidman began noticing his comforting effects. "This dog," she writes, "possessed of the sweetest of temperaments, became my constant companion. He was such a source of joy to me that before I knew it, I was writing a series of dog poems about the ways he exasperated, consoled, amused, and amazed me." She is the author of several other fine books of poetry and teaches in the Minneapolis schools as a writer-in-residence. She lives in Wayzata, Minnesota, with her husband and two teenage sons, on the edge of the country where she and Merlin walk every day Doug Mindell has worked as a professional photographer for more than twenty years for magazines, advertising agencies, and corporate clients. While working on this book, he says, his best test was to show prints of the dog pictures to various children in his neighborhood. He lives, with his wife and son, in Newton, Massachusetts, where he enjoys gardening and coaching Little League baseballSidman, Joyce is the author of 'World According to Dog Poems and Teen Voices', published 2003 under ISBN 9780618174973 and ISBN 0618174974.