Book a dog's day at home

Rebecca Rissman is an award winning children s author and editor Her writing has been praised by School Library Journal Booklist Creative Child Magazine and Learning Magazine She has written than 200 books about history culture science and art She lives in Chicago Illinois with her husband and two daughters She enjoys yoga reading and cooking. A dog's day childrens activities In this playful flip book readers follow a dog on his wild day through town in the first half of the text To read about the owner s perspective of the same day flip the book over and start reading from the back Bright illustrations and simple text make this book a fast favorite A Dog s DayI justreally did not like this book and certainly less than its sibling book A Cat s Day The author splits the book in half one side telling the story from the point of view of the dog off on an adventure when he escapes his house and the other from the point of view of his owner whom is trying to find her dog but is continually just a few steps behind Splitting the book made each story too short and they don t interact all that much as compared to A Cat s Day It s really just a lot of repetition as she catches up. Dog day afternoon ebert There are a lot of wonderful books out there about dogs and you could spend your money on lots of better picks Try this from the library if available but don t feel bad if they didn t buy it You probably won t either 32 Fun I actually made a book with this idea with my class at school one year 32 Introducing young readers to point of view is difficult In this lovely upside down book the readers read the story from the perspective of Rusty the dog and Rosie the girl who walks and plays with him every day Rusty without his leash and owner decides to walk into the stores and jumps into the fountain in the town square He is surprised and sad when nobody welcomes him Sometime later Rusty realizes that he is hungry and lost when he hears a familiar voice calling his name At this point in the story Rosy and Rusty meet and the reader must flip over the book to read Rosie s part of the story The book is a great way to introduce characters and POV The storyline is really simple and even the youngest readers can actually see where the characters meet and the two strands twine This is a great book for the youngest readers 32 Dog lovers will find this book delightful because it tells two different versions of the same story In one version Rosie wakes up to find that her dog Rusty is missing She heads outside and looks for him following the trail of mischief he has left behind In the other version of the story readers hear Rusty s side of the story As he races through the neighborhood many unhappy individuals are inconvenienced by his fun After all it s all in the perspective right But what matters in the end is that Rusty and Rosie love each other and are glad to be reunited This is probably the best day Rusty has ever had The bright colors in the illustrations will enable readers to see the mess that one dog can make as he passes through a shoe store and bathes in a fountain 32