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Title: Dog Breath!: The Horrible Trouble With Hally Tosis by Dav Pilkey ISBN: 0-590-47466-9 Publisher: Blue Sky Press Pub. Date: October, 1994 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This one's a hoot!
Comment: If you like puns and sight gags, then you'll love Dav Pilkey's Dog Breath, subtitled The Horrible Trouble with Hally Tosis. This crime-fighting canine story is one pun after another. Those adults who don't appreciate a good (or a really bad) pun may groan, but kids will eat it up and ask for seconds.
Hally, the resident dog in the Tosis household, has breath so bad that when she opens her mouth, the leaves on the houseplants wither and die, the wallpaper curls up, and the picture of Mona Lisa holds her nose. Her breath is so bad that Mr. and Mrs. Tosis tell the kids the dog must go. The kids try everything to fix Hally's aroma -- the breath-taking view doesn't work, neither does the movie that promises to "take your breath away."
That night, two burglars, whose arrival has been heralded all through the illustrations, break into the Tosis house. The only thing that stops them from making off with all the family's stuff is, what else, a big, wet, sloppy, stinky slurp from Hally. Mr. and Mrs. Tosis can't kick a hero out of the house. Because, after all, life without Hally... no, I'm not going to spoil one of the best puns in the book for you; you'll just have to read it yourself
Rating: 5
Summary: Hally Tosis makes perfect scents!!
Comment: This book caught my eye in a local bookstore and I bought it becase I thought and illustrations were cute. This was one of the smartest purchases I have ever made. My 2 1/2 year old loves this book! I read it to her almost every night and she has the book memorized to the point where she "reads" along with me. We love Hally Tosis and her bad breath!!
Rating: 4
Summary: 4 ½* Tongue Wags the Dog
Comment: The pleasingly familiar illustrations and comic sensibilities (i.e., silly, punny, off-hand) of famed children's writer Dav Pilkey are evident from the first line (and its accompanying illustration): "There once was a dog named Haley, who lived with the Tosis family." (Get it--Haley Tosis?). This dog is so smelly that Mona Lisa holds her nose, a skunk tries to hide, and Grandma Tosis faints after Haley gets in her face. After this, there are some typical Pilkey puns and visual humor as the family kids try to clean up her act.
After Haley saves her human family from some burglars, she becomes "the most famous crime-fighting dog in the country." The last page is quintessential Pilkey: The Tosis family, clothespins pinching their noses, gathers around Haley in an overstuffed chair, happy to keep their dog "Because life without Haley Tosis just wouldn't make any scents." Although the book has other such puns and clever pictures, it's mostly for younger kids. Pilkey really reaches his zenith in the "Captain Underpants" series, which features humor that is both more outrageous and layered. There's more fun and irreverence in those books, but this is a good introduction to Pilkey for the younger set.
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Title: Walter, the Farting Dog by William Kotzwinkle, Glenn Murray, Audrey Colman ISBN: 1583940537 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Dogzilla by Dav Pilkey ISBN: 0152239456 Publisher: Harcourt Paperbacks Pub. Date: 29 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: Kat Kong by Dav Pilkey ISBN: 0152420371 Publisher: Harcourt Paperbacks Pub. Date: 29 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey ISBN: 0439079462 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: When Cats Dream (Orchard Paperbacks) by Dav Pilkey ISBN: 0531070751 Publisher: Orchard Books Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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