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 Krasm
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Brooklyn | posted: 10/8/2003 at 2:30:34 PM ET
My co-worker's just purchased this children's book for my Birthday (Yesterday) and if you open to the first page, there is a picture of Bernadette with a cat named "Skeezix". According to the book, Hilary Knight used Bernadette and Morphed her into the cat in the story. It is so cute, the cat looks like Bernadette throughout the story.
You all have to buy this book.
Keith
"To each his Dulcinea
That he alone can name..."
|  Christine-NYC
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| posted: 10/8/2003 at 3:15:18 PM ET
I assume the book is nothing like the 70's movie? lol Especially if it's a children's book. That sounds cool though.
<3CMH<3
|  UCFGuardgirl
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New York City | posted: 10/8/2003 at 3:19:41 PM ET
Hmmm.. children's book, huh? Well, it's not from my company.  I will definitely look into that. I wonder if the author had to get permission to use Bernadette's likeness. (You'd be surprised what you have to get permission to use when you write a book. We had someone threatening to sue us last week because the first three words of one of our titles "resembled" that of one of her books. CRRAAAZZZZYYYY.) 
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Regis: And look at all this hair. My God. That's a lot of hair. Look at this. How does hair get this way?
Bernadette: Um.. it sort of grew out of my head like this.
-- Live with Regis
| Krasm
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Brooklyn | posted: 10/8/2003 at 3:37:11 PM ET
Bernadette has given full approval. She is featured in the book with a picture of her with a real cat.
Quote by Bernadette:
What an honor to be part of the retelling of this charming story. It has always been one of my favorites, and to be "morphed" by Hilary Knight was a special treat.
"To each his Dulcinea
That he alone can name..."
|  SingOutAnnie
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Bradenton/Sarasota, FLA | posted: 10/8/2003 at 3:41:37 PM ET
The author has been dead for about a century.
Come on, people! (jeepers, what do they teach in schools anymore? Sorry. but parents should turn off the TV and READ TO KIDS!!)
One of my favorites:
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows,
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood,
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
A collaboration with the illustrator I'm sure. Just shows Bernadette Peters is into EVERYTHING!!! She can do it all.
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 10/8/2003 at 3:42:58 PM ET
Wow, great! I'll have to rush out and get it. The text must be the poem by Edward Lear. Too cool. Thanks!
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 10/8/2003 at 3:45:15 PM ET
Sorry for the cross-post, SingOutAnnie.
| UCFGuardgirl
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New York City | posted: 10/8/2003 at 5:34:47 PM ET
LOL, Sing-out-Annie. You know what's funny? Dead authors are the worst because then you have to deal with their ESTATES. And usually the executors are nitpicky. You have to worry about getting permission for every last little detail (not that you don't, anyway, but executor permissions get tricky.) ARGH!
But how neat that Bernadette gave permission to be featured in the book. I haven't seen it (and I don't think it was referenced in this year's School Library Journal,) but I'll have to go and check it out.
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Regis: And look at all this hair. My God. That's a lot of hair. Look at this. How does hair get this way?
Bernadette: Um.. it sort of grew out of my head like this.
-- Live with Regis
|  moljul
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| posted: 10/8/2003 at 5:50:01 PM ET
Is this a new book or rereleased or an older book? A kind of remembering seeig something like that several years ago but I might be confusing it with someone else.
| SingOutAnnie
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Bradenton/Sarasota, FLA | posted: 10/9/2003 at 8:56:57 AM ET
UCFGuardgirl,
You mean dead authors come back to haunt you?? (Sorry. Again. Just had to say it.)
Actually, having heard horror stories about access to materials restricted by the estate from a professor who was working on a bio of a long-gone writer, I can appreciate what you mean of such difficulties in your business.
Barnes & Noble says the book was published in May 2001. I tried to find it at the local B&N, but no deal. I'm dying to see these illustrations...
"The Owl and the Pussy-cat" is one of Edward Lear's nonsense poems written in the 19th century. It has had many illustrations. This one with Bernadette is by the children's book artist who does the "Eloise" series of books (you know, the one Julie Andrews played the nanny in in the TV movie and just signed up for the sequel).
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 10/10/2003 at 10:48:00 AM ET
Since I won't have time to check the book stores until the weekend, I got a copy at the library. What a beautiful picture book--the illustrations are absolutely adorable! I have to say though that if it didn't say that the cat's image was inspired by Bernadette Peters, I wouldn't have recognized that on my own. The resemblance is not really very pronounced. But it's a great book, Simon & Schuster, and apparently still in print, so I should be able to still find it out there. The photo in the front of Bernadette holding up Hilary Knight's very large cat is just great. Don't know how this book escaped my radar when it was first published.
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