Book Review: Jagger and Bode Have a Field Day (books, library, dogs save the day)

Jagger and Bode Have a Field Day, by L. Ellis (Miriam Laundry Publishing, 2024, 34pp, ages 6-8, $11.99) Review by Skye Anderson 

Wow, just look at that front cover full of dogs playing tug of war, playing pin the tail on the kitty, playing frisbee, playing roll the tire, having sack races, and our dogstars, Jagger and Bode, are featured in the middle, having a field day, as well as on the back cover with their human and in an actual photograph!

You can even color the front cover if you go to https://doodlebrotherspublishing.com/activities/ and print out* one of the coloring pages.

Jagger and Bode are brothers but Jagger is the 'elder.' By six months. They love storytime at school when they gather round the teacher and sit on the floor (just like you!) and listen to the teacher read them a book. Sometimes it takes more than one day to get through a long book and that is just what happened with Biscuit and Bone - but a storm came up and flooded the school library ruining all the books, even the one the class was in the middle of!

Oh, no! What to do? The students want to know what happens in their story!

Suddenly, Jagger has an idea! "Let's raise money to buy new books by having a field day with lots of games!"

And so the story goes on with the planning and marketing of field day. Will the class raise enough money to buy their favorite books?

*Jagger and Bode are mini goldendoodles who want you to learn about how to act around dogs so they included pages in both their book and on their website - some do's and don't's. They even include how to act around service dogs. And the reader can try to guess the dog breeds.

What would I change?

I wouldn't refer to the vet as the "dreaded vet" but maybe the "friendly vet."