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Pet This F*cking Puppy

A Touch-and-Feel Book for Stressed-Out Adults

Illustrated by Jason Kayser
Hardcover
$19.95 US
6.57"W x 6.56"H x 0.82"D   | 12 oz | 40 per carton
On sale Feb 25, 2020 | 12 Pages | 9780789338020

This first-ever touch-and-feel book for grown-ups is the perfect interactive and calming gift for any stressed-out adult. Which is every adult.

A board book with six touch-and-feel (or smell!) elements that punctuate simple illustrations, this hilarious novelty book provides today's hardworking grown-up different tactile, visual, or smelly ways to, well, calm the f *ck down.

Bright, bold images of puppies, blankets, rainbows, sunsets, and more, each complemented with a different texture or interactive element, are designed to give readers moments of quiet respite from the onslaught of real-world angst and responsibilities.

Guaranteed to calm anyone from a neurotic New York businessperson to a harried soccer parent to anyone who watches the news, Pet This F*cking Puppy will make people smile long enough to feel a little better.
"This touch-and-feel book for grown-ups offers an antidote to the scourge of 2020. With six touch-and-feel (or smell!) elements that punctuate simple illustrations, this hilarious novelty book provides today’s adults-on-the-verge different tactile, visual, or smelly ways to calm down. From a neurotic New York businessperson to a harried soccer parent to anyone who watches the news, Pet This F*cking Puppy will make people smile long enough to feel a little better." —Publisher Weekly Holiday Gift Guide 2020
Robb Pearlman is the author of more than thirty books for adults and kids, including I Adulted!, TVUSA, and What Would Skeletor Do?. Jason Kayser is the illustrator of many books for adults and kids, including Dancing with Jesus.

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This first-ever touch-and-feel book for grown-ups is the perfect interactive and calming gift for any stressed-out adult. Which is every adult.

A board book with six touch-and-feel (or smell!) elements that punctuate simple illustrations, this hilarious novelty book provides today's hardworking grown-up different tactile, visual, or smelly ways to, well, calm the f *ck down.

Bright, bold images of puppies, blankets, rainbows, sunsets, and more, each complemented with a different texture or interactive element, are designed to give readers moments of quiet respite from the onslaught of real-world angst and responsibilities.

Guaranteed to calm anyone from a neurotic New York businessperson to a harried soccer parent to anyone who watches the news, Pet This F*cking Puppy will make people smile long enough to feel a little better.

Praise

"This touch-and-feel book for grown-ups offers an antidote to the scourge of 2020. With six touch-and-feel (or smell!) elements that punctuate simple illustrations, this hilarious novelty book provides today’s adults-on-the-verge different tactile, visual, or smelly ways to calm down. From a neurotic New York businessperson to a harried soccer parent to anyone who watches the news, Pet This F*cking Puppy will make people smile long enough to feel a little better." —Publisher Weekly Holiday Gift Guide 2020

Author

Robb Pearlman is the author of more than thirty books for adults and kids, including I Adulted!, TVUSA, and What Would Skeletor Do?. Jason Kayser is the illustrator of many books for adults and kids, including Dancing with Jesus.

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