Wet Dog!

Title: Wet Dog!
Author: Elise Broach
Illustrator: David Catrow
(C) 2007
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 978 - 0142408551
32 pp.

OK, so I don't plan on putting pictures books up here all that often, but I thought I'd share this one. I read it last week to the kids and they were enthralled.

The "too-hot dog" in the "too-hot sun" just wants to cool off, but everywhere he goes to cool off, the people just tell him "Shoo! Go on now! Shoo!" It probably doesn't help that "he shakes and he shakes with a happy-dog smile, wagging his happy-dog tail."

I have a few other books illustrated by David Cartow, each one more comical than the last. He does a great job helping to get the story across.

If you pick this one up to read aloud, may I suggest trying it with a slightly southern-ish accent? That's how I read it and the kids love it.