- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Police, Police dogs
"Besides the beguiling story, the affable illustrations of the smiling Gloria, the accidental mayhem in the background, and the myriad safety tips -- such as 'always pull the toothpick out of your sandwhich' and 'never lick a stop sign in the winter' -- add to the enjoyment.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Peggy Rathmann
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Putnam's, Scholastic, École des loisirs
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- Chinese, Spanish, French, English
- ISBN
- 9788493991234
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Margaret Crosby "Peggy" Rathmann (born March 4, 1953) is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. Rathmann was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota. She studied commercial art, fine art, and children's book creation in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles. Her first book, "Ruby the Copycat, earned Ms. Rathmann the 'Most Promising New Author' distinction in Publishers Weekly's 1991 annual Cuffie Awards." That book was followed by her illustrations of Barbara Bottner's Bootsie Barker Bites and by the self-illustrated Good Night, Gorilla, based on her experiences with gorillas.[citation needed] Officer Buckle and Gloria (1995) won t
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