About This Book:
Bound into this playful and energetic rhyming text featuring an adorable cast of dogs.
Whether it’s getting marvellously muddy, leaping and lolloping or hiding under the bed with a stolen slipper, a dog’s life is so much FUN. This hilarious alphabet celebration of canine capers is perfect for dog lovers young and old.
Featuring stylish and vibrant artwork by the award-winning Sara Ogilvie, illustrator of Julia Donaldson’s The Detective Dog.
*Review Contributed By Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer*
Dogs from A to Zwergspitz!
Ogilvie’s illustrations are adorable, and slightly reminiscent of Margaret Bloy Graham’s Harry, the Dirty Dog. You can tell from the cover that the eyes convey a lot of emotion, and there’s also a lot of action. Of course, the cutest thing is the dogs curled up sleeping.
One of my favorite picture book series is Melling’s Ruffles, with it’s thumbnail sketches of Ruffles doing many activities. The fact that D if for Dog is also an alphabet book with a variety of breeds represented makes it the perfect accompaniment to Ruffles and his various adventures. Many books about dogs, like Sorosiak’s World of Dogs and Lonely Planet’s Atlas of Dogs, are for slightly older readers with longer attention spans, but D is for Dog is a delightfully didactic dictionary of dog descriptions!
