Note: I received an unbound galley of this book from the publisher. ( )

Genre: Informational
Summary: This book talks about what dogs do and what they can do to get in trouble.

~ from the library

BIG DOG & LITTLE DOG is a cute series from Dav Pilkey -- well known for his other series, Captain Underpants, Dumb Bunnies, Dragon, Ricky Ricotta.

These BIG/LITTLE DOG books though are at the Kindergarten reading level. The Lexile number for this book is AD50L and the Accelerated Reader number is 0.8.

The book has only 73 words and bright saturated colors.

*you can find reading info on the other Pilkey books here: http://goodbooksforkids-lists.blogspot.com/2012/08/dav-pilkey-books-index.html

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This is a really nice book and one of the features that is nice about it are the activities at the end. There are 6 pages of intelligent and fun things for youngsters to do. There's a maze that will take the dogs to the skunk as well as Fun Facts which adults can read and share.

In addition there are pictures which are out of sequence and kids are challenged to put them in the right order. As well there is a Word Scramble and a Fill-in-the-Blank.

As far as the story it's a classic. Dogs see critter. Dogs decide it's a cat. Dogs find out it's not a cat. And in his trademark way Pilkey throws in a funny twist at the end. ( )

Cute illustrations. Great for a little one that can't read very many words. ( )