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| Author | Ezra Jack Keats |
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| Illustrator | Ezra Jack Keats |
| Country | United States |
| Genre | Children's picture book |
Publication date | 1972 |
| ISBN | 0-14-2300004 |
| OCLC | 155082 |
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Pet Show! is a 1972 children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. In an animated movie by Weston Woods Studios, Inc. in 1992, Terry Alexander narrated the movie with music by Fred Weinberg and Joe Beck.
Archie wants to enter his cat in the neighborhood pet show—but where is the cat? Archie keeps on looking even after all the other kids have given up, but his pet is nowhere to be found. Ingenious Archie has a plan to enter the contest—with a most surprising creature and enters an empty jar which he says contains a germ whom he named Al.
Publishers Weekly stated that Pet Show! '...captures a smalltown simplicity amidst an urban landscape...' [1] while a Kirkus Reviews review spoke of the author's '... brightly patterned collage, exuberant thick-smudged paint, and general good will...'. [2]
Groovie Goolies is an American animated television show that had its original run Saturday mornings on CBS between 1970 and 1972. It was rebroadcast the following season on Sunday mornings. Set at a decrepit castle, the show focused on its monstrous but good-natured and mostly friendly inhabitants. Created by Filmation, Groovie Goolies was an original creation of the studio; its characters would cross over with Filmation's Archie Comics adaptations including Sabrina the Teenage Witch and The Archie Show, as well as with the Looney Tunes cast.
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