cover image Lost: Lost and Found Pet Posters from Around the World

Lost: Lost and Found Pet Posters from Around the World

Ian Phillips, Ian Philipps. Princeton Architectural Press, $14.95 (208pp) ISBN 978-1-56898-337-0

""LOST LOST LOST. One brown and white `mottled' street duck. Does not answer to the name of Neither Norman."" A paean to what is perhaps the most poignant form of street art, Lost: Lost and Found Pet Posters from Around the World gathers mournful pleas for the return of ""Porky Pie,"" ""Boo-Boo,"" ""Kwai Chang"" and other missing creatures wanted ""vivant ou mort."" One poster simply reads ""Turtle. Find Him."" A handful of maudlin crayon drawings by children are mixed in with striking and sometimes witty drawings and collages selected by Toronto-based illustrator Ian Phillips, who collects these posters.