Caption: G.P. Putnam's Sons jacket cover, Credit: Natalie C. Sousa, cover design
Image by: Natalie C. Sousa, cover design 
G.P. Putnam's Sons jacket cover 

There is No Dog

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Length: 21:06

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Meg Rosoff, a Printz Award-winning author, returns to the young adult marketplace with "There is No Dog," a provocative and imaginative novel starring God as a teenage boy. Read the full description.

There_is_no_dog_us_small What if God were a teenaged boy?  That's the question Meg Rosoff asked herself one day: The result is a 272-page juicy young adult novel starring Bob. He created the heavens and the earth and the beasts of the field and the creatures of the sea, and twenty-five million other creatures (including lots of cute girls). But mostly he prefers eating junk food and leaving his dirty clothes on the floor. Every time he falls in love, Earth erupts in natural disasters, so human-kind is going to be very sorry indeed that Bob every ran into a beautiful, completely irresistible girl named Lucy.

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Piece Description

What if God were a teenaged boy?  That's the question Meg Rosoff asked herself one day: The result is a 272-page juicy young adult novel starring Bob. He created the heavens and the earth and the beasts of the field and the creatures of the sea, and twenty-five million other creatures (including lots of cute girls). But mostly he prefers eating junk food and leaving his dirty clothes on the floor. Every time he falls in love, Earth erupts in natural disasters, so human-kind is going to be very sorry indeed that Bob every ran into a beautiful, completely irresistible girl named Lucy.

Intro and Outro

INTRO:

If God were a teenage boy, what would he do?

OUTRO:

Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
Pensativa Terry Trotter It's About Time. MAMA 1993 00:00

Related Website

www.megrosoff.co.uk/