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Title: My Dog Never Says Please (Picture Books) by Suzanne Williams, Tedd Arnold ISBN: 0-14-056725-9 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book for kids and adults!
Comment: I read this book at a house to children I was babysitting for. The children and I both found the book to be quite funny and requested multiple readings. I was more than happy to read this book again for them. It is a great book and I am going to order it for my neice for her birthday!
Rating: 5
Summary: Gets the point across without moralizing
Comment: Ginnie Mae's got a tough life. Her ma's picky about things like saying please and wearing shoes. Her little brother, Jack, is so perfect "he ha[s] a little halo over his head." Her dog, Ol' Red, seems to have things a lot easier. "My dog never says 'please,'" muses Ginnie Mae, "and no one thinks a thing about it." Finally, after a night of being told to mind her manners, eat like a lady, clean her room, and put on her shoes, Ginnie Mae declares she'd rather be a dog. Humored by her parents, she moves in with Ol' Red, to a life of treeing cats, digging holes, sleeping in the doghouse, and begging for scraps. "Ol' Red's real good about sharing. . . I think he's even given me some of his fleas."
Kibbles can't compare to her ma's cooking, however, and when it starts to rain, Ginnie Mae starts to reconsider her care-free lifestyle. "Pa says I can go back to being myself anytime I've a mind to. So maybe I'll just saunter on in and wash up for supper," she decides.
This story has some great comic moments that make my four-year-old laugh out loud, and even bring a smile to his oh-so-sophisticated six-year-old sister's face. I like the fact that even though the story is told through Ginnie Mae's voice, Ma and Pa are presented as perfectly reasonable parents. More importantly, the author, Suzanne Williams, lets the story play to it's logical outcome without moralizing. She allows her readers to draw for themselves the conclusion that good manners are a fair trade-off for the blessings of civilization. Tedd Arnold's illustrations are priceless, adding wry humor to an already amusing story. He gives us Ginnie Mae at the dinner table, the food flying everywhere, and Ginnie Mae and Ol' Red sitting side by side on their haunches, scratching at fleas. Funniest of all is the teeth-baring grin Ginnie Mae gives her annoying little brother at the end of the book, and his startled reaction to it.
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Title: Parts by Tedd Arnold, K. Gilson ISBN: 0140565337 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: More Parts by Tedd Arnold ISBN: 0803714173 Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Green Wilma (Puffin Pied Piper) by Tedd Arnold ISBN: 0140563628 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: No More Water in the Tub! by Tedd Arnold, Mark Buehner ISBN: 0140564306 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Mommy Doesn't Know My Name by Andrew Shachat, Suzanne Williams ISBN: 0395779790 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 03 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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