If My Dad Were a Dog
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- $3.99
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
What if your Dad were a Dog, just for a day? Imagine the fun you'd have telling him to sit and stay! You could take him to dog shows, go for 'walkies' and best of all, the person in charge of the daddy-dog is YOU!
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Tellis's slight debut picture book about a child/parent role reversal lacks the characterization, charm and developed plot of books with a similar theme. Although the bright primary colors surrounding the photographs of the brown Labrador dad are amusing, the humor inherent in the idea of a dog/father being bossed around by his child quickly wears thin. From feeding the dog to providing him with a shovel for his "daddy-doos" and taking him to the park, the exclamations often more closely resemble a series of scrapbook captions than a complete story. ("I'd teach him to dance like a butterfly queen," the narrator states, and the dog is pictured in a field of daisies rearing up like a stallion, wearing a pink bow on his tail, pink and purple butterfly wings and a yellow crown.) Vibrant cartoon drawings pair with somewhat less appealing photographs of the Labrador to create eye-catching illustrations, as if the dog had wandered on to a black-lined Blue's Clues set. Unfortunately, there's no central theme that coherently ties the pictures together, and even the ending (child and father sit on a chair reading this book together) doesn't provide a satisfying conclusion. Ages 4-8.