Dog Diaries: Happy Howlidays! by James Patterson with Steven Butler (jimmy patterson [publisher], book 2 of 7, $9.99 HB, 240pp, grades 2-7, ages 8-11, 2019) Review by Skye Anderson
Who better to write a book about dogs than a dog!
Junior, our dog in question, will exuberantly grab your attention from the first sentence where he calls you his "furless friend" - and never let go! Boys, especially, are also his 'pet human' and 'person-pal.'
Glossy Glossary
Mom-lady, Grandmoo, picture-box room and rainy poop room, Fangsgiving and Critter-Mess Day, moving people box on wheels, blowing up colorful blobs filled with someone's breath, hot fire box, coldy frosty tall thing, cuddle puddle: Can you guess what the chatty-ear-stick is? If not, there is a cheat sheet in the back of the book.
The Plots (two holidays)
Day by day action and, at times, minute by minute, read how a dog saves Thanksgiving Day via a creepy little human and burnt plastic. As far as Christmas goes, I'll leave that excitement and (mis)understanding up to you, dear reader, to discover that the world has disappeared! It's been erased! And the air is full of tiny white things and there are crunchy, coldy, pointy chew toys outside hanging under the window ledge
Read book 1, to find out how our feckless hero was sprung from pooch-prison, and, after that, book 3, Mission ImPAWsible: A Middle School Story.
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