Synopsis
A counting book about 10 little hot dogs playing on a chair.
A cute, funny counting book featuring adorable dachshunds('Hot dogs'). Ages 3-6
One little hot dog sitting on a chair..."I want a friend to sit with me!" Two little hot dogs sitting on a chair...
One by one, more little hot dogs join the group until there are ten little hot dogs on the chair. They play and play until...they all fall asleep. But then, one little hot dog wakes up, and one by one, guess what the other hot dogs do? Humorous illustrations rendered in watercolor and pencil and a playful narrative make it easy for young readers to count these hopping hot dogs from one to ten and down again from ten to one.
Children's Literature
In this catchy book, the counting up and down from ten is wonderfully embedded in a delightful story about the adventures of ten little dachshunds—the "hot dogs" of the title. One by one, they clamber onto a stuffed easy chair; each one usually brings in a new treat or distraction—like a juicy bone or a ball or a sock to tug. The illustrations manage to show plenty of bounce in the dogs. Speech balloons deliver a variety of doggy sounds. Eventually, all the activity puts the dogs to sleep. But not for long. One by one, the dogs quietly slip down from the chair and start playing on the floor nearby. Now, every picture shows all 10 puppies but the set of those still sleeping is marked by speech balloons that indicate sleepytime behavior such as snore, snuggle, sigh, and snooze. This is an excellent counting book— the wiggling little "hot dogs" are a playful, appealing way for young children to develop their awareness that number names and numerals correspond to specific quantities, that there is a fixed order of numbers whether counting up or down, and that each number word corresponds to one dog—three key "Big Ideas" about counting. Reviewer: Mary Hynes-Berry