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Overview
From the creator of the #1 New York Times bestsellerTails and the million-copy-selling Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings
Doggone fun for toddlers!
In Matthew Van Fleet's captivating new multiconcept book, twenty breeds of capering canines demonstrate action words, opposites, synonyms, and more. Cleverly designed pull tabs and flaps plus ten pettable textures provide interactive treats that will have toddlers arfing along from start to surprising finish. Bow-WOW!
Synopsis
From the creator of the #1 New York Times bestsellerTails and the million-copy-selling Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings
Doggone fun for toddlers!
In Matthew Van Fleet's captivating new multiconcept book, twenty breeds of capering canines demonstrate action words, opposites, synonyms, and more. Cleverly designed pull tabs and flaps plus ten pettable textures provide interactive treats that will have toddlers arfing along from start to surprising finish. Bow-WOW!
Child Magazine
Pull one tab and a pug wags his tail. Try another and a wet mutt shakes his fur dry. Kids will adore playing alpha dog to this canine crew, whose charming photos lend themselves to clever pull-tabs and furry textures to pet. Rough-and-tumble verse also teaches new words and concepts: "Smooth dog, curly dog, chase dog...catch! Fleas make an itchy dog scratch, scratch, scratch!" (ages 2 and up)
The February 2007 issue of Child magazine
Editorials
From The Critics
Pull one tab and a pug wags his tail. Try another and a wet mutt shakes his fur dry. Kids will adore playing alpha dog to this canine crew, whose charming photos lend themselves to clever pull-tabs and furry textures to pet. Rough-and-tumble verse also teaches new words and concepts: "Smooth dog, curly dog, chase dog...catch! Fleas make an itchy dog scratch, scratch, scratch!" (ages 2 and up)The February 2007 issue of Child magazine
Publishers Weekly
After the success of Tails, Matthew Van Fleet follows up with Dog, with photos by Brian Stanton, in which pug puppies, full-grown golden retrievers, and good plus misbehaving dogs invite youngsters to flop their ears and pet their fur. Tabs allow readers to wag the dogs and watch them shake, among other activities. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.Children's Literature -
If you do not want to own this book, you should at least make an effort to see it. With only twenty-plus pages, including both inside covers and both sides of two flaps, this 2 lb., 10" long by 7" high white book is a dog lover's treat. The information on the back of the book indicates there are twenty breeds of dogs pictured, but there are many more photographs than that. There are large and small dogs, furry and sleek dogs, puppies and full-grown dogs. The designer of this dog bonanza has added pull-tabs to make tails wag and legs scratch, and put texture in tails and ears to be touched. The words are brief but flow nicely. "Fluffy dog, Scruffy dog, Droopy dog sags, Perky little puppy dog—wag, wag, wag!" Or "Good dog, Bad dog, Neat dog, Sloppy." The dachshund, whose ears are textured and floppy, is a treat, as is the neat dog with a towel in his collar as he eats. All dogs are reprised on the last pages and are identified by their real names. From Friday, the Old English Sheepdog, to Poncho, the long-haired Chihuahua, you will love them all.School Library Journal
PreS - K - This sturdy offering presents full-color photos of charismatic canines embellished with pull tabs and tactile (mostly furlike) textures. The brief, rhyming text highlights various critters and their behaviors, making comparisons and contrasts. On one page, a wheaton terrier ("Little dog") is posed next to an English mastiff ("Big dog") and a nervous-looking Chihuahua ("Teeny dog quakes"), while opposite, a neatly coiffed schnauzer backs away from a damp mutt in a tub and the verse finishes, "Dry dog,/Wet dog-/shake,/shake,/shake!" (a pull tab moves the bather's head from side to side). Unfortunately, some of the concepts are not as clearly presented. One spread reads: "Happy dog,/Sad dog,/Friendly dog licks./Slobber dog,/Pant dog,/Drooly dog sticks!" Aside from the awkward phrasing, children may not notice that the aforementioned pooch has a touchable sticky tongue (it's rather small) and miss the point completely. A page showing a Lab puppy in a squatting position declares, "All dogs poop," while the English bulldog standing nearby lifts its leg-with the help of a pull tab-revealing, "All dogs pee." The book ends with foldouts that introduce each pet by name and breed. Leave this one for the bookstore crowd.-Joy Fleishhacker, School Library Journal
Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information