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Zoomer

by Ned Young
32p. 978-0-06170-088-0.
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K-Gr 4 It's time for dog brothers Cooper, Hooper, and Zoomer to get ready for school, but Zoomer doesn't intend to go today. He's busy doing a variety of ridiculous things: blowing the world's largest bubble, making a giant sand brontosaurus, building a dog-food castle, and more. Dad does his best to corral Zoomer and his brothers through their morning routine, but in the end, the pup is right when he claims that he is staying home. It turns out to be Saturday. Bright, fun illustrations detailing Zoomer's ambitious undertakings are the highlight of the book. A choppy story line and a narrative that lacks transitions between one event and the next create an overall feeling of disconnect, causing this attempt at humorous exaggeration to be more confusing than funny."Amanda Moss Struckmeyer, Middleton Public Library, WI" Copyright 2010 Media Source Inc.
With Mom away, it's Dad's job to get their pups ready for another school day. Twins Hooper and Cooper toe the line, but Zoomer has far too much on his to-do list to even think about school. The familiar mom's-gone-so-things-get-crazy plot gets a lift from a surprise ending and the bright primary-color illustrations of Zoomer's antics.

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