FICTION

If You Give a Dog a Donut

by Laura NUMEROFF
978-0-06026-683-7.
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PreS-K—If you give a dog a donut, he'll want some apple juice to go with it. So begins the now-familiar circular story that will end up in the same place as it started. This one takes a little time out in the middle for a baseball game between the dog and the boy. Then the story line meanders back to a thirsty dog that wants some apple juice and, no doubt, a donut to go with it. The illustrations, all outlined in black, are clean and colorful. There is a lot of white space in this one, as backgrounds are kept to a minimum. The formula is a hit with the preschool crowd, and this installment is sure to be as popular as the others.—Ieva Bates, Ann Arbor District Library, MI
The dog from If You Give a Pig a Party gets his own zany cause-and-effect plot. In a familiar pattern, the dog's initial request (apple juice to go with his doughnut) comes full circle, though some of the links in the chain of events seem arbitrary. The bright illustrations match the text's enthusiasm.
Reviewed by Ieva Bates , Oct 01, 2011

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