Hot Dog

 
　　炎熱的夏日，讓狗狗熱得實在受不了，潮濕悶熱的人行道、城市裡鬧哄哄的聲響，每件事都讓狗狗簡直快要崩潰，動都不想再動了……主人只好帶上狗狗，一起搭上前往海邊的列車。湛藍美麗的大海到囉，享受舒服的海風、在海灘盡情奔跑、和海浪玩耍，讓狗狗度過超開心的一天！天色轉暗，主人帶著狗狗回到市區，該回家吃飯啦，滿足的狗狗今晚會做什麼好夢呢？
　　
　　在故事的開頭，作者Doug Salati將畫面切成連續的縱向框格，表現出城市的緊湊步調和緊繃感，當鏡頭轉往海邊，畫面轉為跨頁的橫向呈現，自然而然讓讀者的視野也跟著開闊起來。簡短的文字和生動的插畫，將涼爽的海風帶進書頁，邀請讀者與書中主角一同逃離日常，來場說走就走的小旅行，讓美麗的大海療癒日常的煩躁，一起度過開心的時光！

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE 2023 CALDECOTT MEDAL - This glowing and playful picture book features an overheated--and overwhelmed--pup who finds his calm with some sea, sand, and fresh air. Destined to become a classic!

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - New York Public Library

＂An utter joy from beginning to end!＂ --Sophie Blackall, two-time Caldecott Medal winner

This hot dog has had enough of summer in the city! Enough of sizzling sidewalks, enough of wailing sirens, enough of people’s feet right in his face. When he plops down in the middle of a crosswalk, his owner endeavors to get him the breath of fresh air he needs. She hails a taxi, hops a train, and ferries out to the beach.

Here, a pup can run!

With fluid art and lyrical text that have the soothing effect of waves on sand, award-winning author Doug Salati shows us how to find calm and carry it back with us so we can appreciate the small joys in a day.

Doug Salati is the illustrator of Tomie dePaola’s In a Small Kingdom, as well as Matthew Farina’s Lawrence in the Fall, an Ezra Jack Keats Honor Book, which the Wall Street Journal described as a handsome excursion. Doug graduated from the Illustration as Visual Essay masters program at the School of Visual Arts in 2014 and was a 2015 Sendak Fellow. His illustration work has been recognized by 3x3 Illustration, American Illustration, and the Society of Illustrators. He lives and works in New York City.