pet connection

First, I have to say that I was surely among the many disappointed people in this world when NPRs Scott Simon got married, not to me.  But, I’m happy he did, because marriage and parenthood has made him a better listen for us all. (Listen to his essay on Mother’s Day.)

This morning I listened to him interview Jules and Kate Feiffer about their children’s book, “Which Puppy?” I’ve always loved Jules Feiffer’s work, and the book sounds so adorable once I finished with my errands I ordered it.

From NPR:

“I watched [now-Pres. Obama's election=night speech], and … the next day, my editor contacted me and asked if I had any ideas for a story,” Kate Feiffer tells Scott Simon.

It turns out she did: Her idea was to write a book about a menagerie of animals — including a kitten, a turtle who takes barking lessons and a Guinea pig who says she can tell time with her tail — who compete to be the new White House pet.

“I had to write it very quickly, because we wanted to get it out before the first 100 days of the administration,” says Kate Feiffer.

But the challenge of working under such a compressed schedule meant Feiffer had to scramble to find an illustrator. Luckily, she had someone in her family who worked in the field; her father, Jules Feiffer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, illustrator and playwright.

Story and audio here.  Here’s the book at Powell’s.  This morning’s “Weekend Edition Saturday” also had a wonderful story on marine mommies, here.

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