We started talking about our favorite books as children, and both had a good laugh over the fact that we'd loved the Poky Little Puppy as much as any of the classics by Sendak or Silverstein, but that as adults, we'd become blind adherents to the ratings, erroneously assuming that the Poky Little Puppy wasn't 'real' children's literature because it won no awards or praise from the critics. I asked him if they were all college students, but he surprised me by saying that there were a fair number of adults. People kept coming in asking if there was a wait list.
The store manager (who also was in his 30s) told me that all of their stores were sold out, both retail and online. A few weeks later I still couldn't stop thinking about it, so I went back to buy one. Early this summer I saw 'Poky Little Puppy' t-shirts for adults being sold at a popular national retail chain near NYU.
but the Poky Little Puppy is beloved by children of every generation.
