If I Ran the Dog Show:
All About Dogs, by Tish Rabe (The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library by
Random House, 45 pages, 2012, $8.99, ages 5-8)
“Seussian”
The cover depicts the Cat in the Hat so I thought this was
another Seussian installment. Instead, it is one in a new series of like-minded
books by Random House, which also includes A Great Day for Pup and Oh! The Pets
You Can Get! and titles like If I Ran the Rain Forest and Inside your Outside.
First Non-Fiction
Series for Kids
This series is for the youngest readers but gives them
non-fiction to whet their appetites - dogs are a subject every kid knows
something about - pertinent to their world yet giving more information than
they may yet know.
Pages are busy with perhaps three paragraphs of rhyme and as
many drawings, as the reader attends the Short-Shaggy-Tail-Waggy Super Dog Show.
Where’s the Plot?
The rhyming scheme and storyline don’t quite measure up to
what I expected – not really Seussian, but a good try, nevertheless, and a good
introduction to non-fiction. Here’s hoping the other books in the series follow
a great plot!
Bonus: A
glossary, a list of additional books and an index make for a really ‘grown-up’
book for both the young and the young at heart.
Caveat: I borrowed this book from a friend.
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