Meg Rosoff counts the Michael L. Printz Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and a Carnegie Medal among her impressive accolades. Praised as a ''cheeky and subversive fantasy fable'' by Horn Book, There Is No Dog explores the question ''What if God were a teenage boy?'' Bob created the heavens and all the creatures on land and sea, but every time he falls in love, natural disasters on Earth follow. So imagine his dismay when he falls harder than ever for an irresistible girl named Lucy.
About the Author :
Meg Rosoff is the author of several books, including the Picture Me Gone, a finalist for the National Book Award, and other novels for young people, including the McTavish series. She is the winner of the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Carnegie Medal.
Steven Boyer is a graduate of the Juilliard School and has appeared both on stage and screen.
Review :
"[An] intelligent and at times angry satire...Rosoff is a brave and uncompromising novelist, with an excellent track record for writing edgy, uncomfortable but memorable stories. This latest effort is certainly all of those."
-- "Independent (London)"
"A delightfully irreverent, sharp novel...The fantastic characters keep the laughs coming and the readers thinking."
-- "Boston Globe"
"Boyer masterfully gloats, whines, and sighs to indicate Bob's flickering emotions as he courts Lucy...Humor and irony are close at hand in Boyer's reading of this fresh and hilarious story."
-- "Booklist (audio review)"
"Genius."
-- "Anthony Horowitz, #1 New York Times bestselling author"
"Irreverent and funny, this book is sure to put off those concerned about blasphemous ideas showing up in teen literature, but it earns its place among the sharpest-witted tours de force of recent memory."
-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"
"Rosoff's supple and subtle writing is at its finest as she describes the tumult and tormoil of young love...There is something of Kurt Vonnegut's intellectual playfulness, while the scenes set among the gods are pure Evelyn Waugh. But in the end, this novel is as hard to pin down and categorize as another of those Greek gods--Proteus. One must simply revel in the joyful singularity of Rosoff's latest masterpiece."
-- "Guardian (London)"
"Steven Boyer narrates with a wonderfully wry tone that takes listeners into his confidence. His characterizations are thoroughly enjoyable...Boyer keeps this short philosophical experiment on track while recounting all the wacky hijinks caused by an adolescent god."
-- "AudioFile"
"Takes a very unusual premise and develops a quirky myth around it...Rosoff uses humor, pathos, and human development in supposing a hormonal adolescent is at the center of creation...Compelling...Those with an interest in philosophy or psychology will be hooked."
-- "Children's Literature"
"Traditionalists may bristle, but there's no denying that Rosoff's writing and sense of humor are a force of nature themselves."
-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
"Wildly inventive and laugh-out-loud funny...It is not often that a book comes along that is both arch and thoughtful, silly and smart. This one's not quite like anything else out there."
-- "Booklist (starred review)"
