Please, Puppy, Please

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, Beacon Award-winning producer Tonya Lewis Lee comes an energetic picture book full of tail-wagging fun.

Away from the gate,
puppy puppy, please, puppy.
Oh wait, puppy, wait,
please, please, please,
please...

What happens when a couple of high-energy toddlers meet their match in an adventurous pup who has no plans of letting up? Irresistible illustrations by Coretta Scott King Award winner Kadir Nelson unleash countless memorable moments of toddlerhood and puppyhood, which families with four-legged friends will enjoy over and over again.

Author: Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 10.32h x 10.26w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9780689868047
Audience: Baby-Preschool

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Children's Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 18
Kirkus Review - Children 10/15/2005 pg. 1140
School Library Journal 11/01/2005 pg. 97
Booklist 11/01/2005 pg. 53
Ebony 12/01/2005 pg. 30
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2005 pg. 190 - Recommended
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2006 pg. 10 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

About the Author
Spike Lee is one of the most prominent and influential media figures today. His films include the critically acclaimed School Daze; Academy Award nominee Do the Right Thing; Malcolm X; Clockers; and 25th Hour. Born in Atlanta, Spike attended Morehouse College and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned his master of fine arts degree in film production. Spike and his wife are the authors of Please, Baby, Please, their first picture book with Simon & Schuster. They live in New York City with their two children.

Tonya Lewis Lee is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Virginia School of Law. As a children's television producer she has worked with Disney, Nickelodeon, and Noggin/The N, where she was the executive producer of the award-winning documentary I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and the critically acclaimed miniseries Miracle's Boys. She is also the author of Gotham Diaries, her first novel.

Kadir Nelson is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, institutions, art galleries, and museums. Nelson's work has won the Coretta Scott King Award, the Robert F. Sibert Award, two Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Awards, and the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. His beloved, award-winning, and bestselling picture books include We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball; Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen; Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange; Salt in His Shoes, written by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan; and many more. Kadir lives in Los Angeles.