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It's Christmas time at Louise's house, and no one in the family is more excited than Walter, Louise's dog, who has a nose for sniffing out his own specially wrapped presents.
Author Notes
Eileen Christelow was born in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 1943. As a child, books were a huge part of Christelow's life: they were always presents for her birthday and Christmas, as well as when she was sick. Much of her childhood was spent reading and rereading them. In high school, Christelow wrote stories for the school magazine, and planned on majoring in English in college. Instead, when Christelow entered her freshman year at college she became interested in art history and eventually found her true passion in photography.
Christelow received her B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965, and soon after she began photographing buildings for architects and shooting photo essays on urban life for small magazines. While earning a living as a photographer and graphic designer, Christelow began experimenting with writing and illustrating children's picture books. Her first published book, Henry and the Red Stripes, was inspired by a poster she created for a science museum.
Many of Christelow's books, including Don't Wake Up Mama!, Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree, and Henry and the Dragon, have been named Children's Choice Books of the Year by the Children's Book Council and the International Reading Association. A member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Christelow has published over a dozen books and her photographs have appeared in publications such as Home, Progressive Architecture, and the New York Times Book Review.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 3A lively picture book that stars Walter, the family dog, and his young mistress, Louise, in a series of holiday misadventures. In the first chapter, the dog gets intoand chews upall of the girl's handmade and carefully wrapped presents. Predictably, chapter two opens with Walter in the doghouse. Still, he follows the family into the woods to look for a Christmas tree. Good thing, too, because Louise gets lost and Walter finds her. In the final episode, Walter sneaks downstairs to investigate the new presents that Louise has left under the tree. And who should be there? Well, Walter's not sure, but he wears a red suit and gives him a bone before swooping back up the chimney. With humor and warmth, Christelow expresses the family's cozy relationships and preholiday excitement. The watercolor and pen-and-ink cartoons are filled with appealing charactersespecially Louise, an intrepid young lady, hands on hips and garbed in a blue, polka-dot bathrobe and yellow boots, who stands angrily in front of the doghouse containing a chagrined Walter. Don't wait for Christmas to share this entertaining romp one-on-one or in a family read-aloud. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.