FICTION

Tiny Goes Back to School

by Cari MEISTER
illus. by Rich Davis. 32p. maps. (Penguin Young Readers). Penguin. 2014. Tr $14.99. ISBN 9780670786077; pap. $3.99. ISBN 9780448481340; lib. ed. $13.55. ISBN 9780606357203.
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PreS-Gr 1—In this installment in the emergent-reader series, a dog roughly the size of an elephant is not well behaved. His owner, an expressive, bespectacled boy, decides that Tiny needs to go back to obedience school. The pup doesn't shine until the doggy num-nums come out. After that he improves his behavior and becomes a role model for the other doggy students. Short, simple sentences are paired with funny cartoon illustrations of an assortment of canines and one beleaguered child, making this a good choice for the very earliest readers.—Melisa Bailey, Harford County Library System, MD
Tiny, a friendly, oversize dog, needs to brush up on "sit," "stay," and "shake," so his boy owner takes him back to Happy Dog School. The accessible vocabulary, large type, short sentences, and emotive art on clean pages work well for beginning readers, who will enjoy the comically large dog's behavioral shift when the teacher arrives with a bag of "Doggie num-nums."
Reviewed by Melisa Bailey , Jul 01, 2014

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