Puppy Mudge Has a Snack

Welcome Mudge!

Mudge is Henry's puppy.

Mudge is cute.

Mudge is snuggly.

Mudge also has a BIG appetite!

With a hungry pup on his hands, will Henry get ANYTHING to eat?

Marilyn Courtot - Children's Literature

Mudge is one big puppy and he also has a big appetite. When Henry is munching a snack, Mudge tags along because he wants some too. He tries getting on Henry's lap, licking his head and any other trick he can think of. Henry keeps saying No! His final tricks win Henry over and off they head to the kitchen where Henry gets a cracker for Mudge. Mudge loves crackers and now both of them are happy enjoying a snack. One line per page with colorful drawings make this a perfect introduction to reading. The amusing pictures of puppy Mudge slobbering and drooling and doing anything he can to get his snack will remind kids of some of their behaviors. A Pre-level 1 book in the "Ready-to-Read" series aimed at kids who need word repetition, familiar words and phrases and simple sentences. 2003, Simon & Schuster, Ages 3 to 5.

Cynthia Rylant is the author of more than one hundred books for young people, including the beloved Henry and Mudge, Annie and Snowball, and Mr. Putter & Tabby series. Her novel Missing May received the Newbery Medal and her pictures books When I Was Young in the Mountains and The Relatives Came received Caldecott Honors. She lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

SuÇie Stevenson is the acclaimed author and illustrator of more than fifty books for children, and is best known as the illustrator of the popular Henry and Mudge books by Cynthia Rylant. She lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with her little cocker spaniel, Gracie.