{"id":119353,"date":"2017-12-28T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=119353"},"modified":"2017-12-19T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T16:14:42","slug":"drawing-dogs-george-booths-living-room-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/28\/drawing-dogs-george-booths-living-room-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Dogs in George Booth\u2019s Living Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_116437\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/heregeorge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116437\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/heregeorge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/heregeorge.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/heregeorge-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/heregeorge-768x256.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-116437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early pages from\u00a0<em>Here, George!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even with the most contemplative toddler on your lap, a dramatic reading of Sandra Boynton\u2019s\u00a0<em>Moo, Baa, La La La!<\/em>\u00a0will probably top out at two minutes. That\u2019s approximately how long it took Boynton\u2014the beloved children\u2019s author who\u2019s sold more than\u00a0seventy\u00a0million books to date\u2014to conceive of her latest board book. It\u2019s called\u00a0<em>Here, George!<\/em>\u00a0and features George, a white dog with a red collar who happens to have a secret: he\u2019s wild about dancing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/05\/drawing-dogs-george-booths-living-room\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Read More &gt;&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Even with the most contemplative toddler on your lap, a dramatic reading of Sandra Boynton\u2019s\u00a0Moo, Baa, La La La!\u00a0will probably top out at two minutes. That\u2019s approximately how long it took Boynton\u2014the beloved children\u2019s author who\u2019s sold more than\u00a0seventy\u00a0million books to date\u2014to conceive of her latest board book. It\u2019s called\u00a0Here, George!\u00a0and features George, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32152],"tags":[3618,30933,5869,1887,9379,30926,30927,30924,30931,30925,40,30934],"class_list":["post-119353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-2017","tag-childrens-books","tag-crown-heights","tag-dr-seuss","tag-gainesville","tag-george","tag-george-booth","tag-hey","tag-in-the-shadow-of-the-moon","tag-leatherneck","tag-sandra-boynton","tag-the-new-yorker","tag-toulouse-lautrec"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Drawing Dogs in George Booth&#039;s Living Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What happens 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