Review by Booklist Review
This delightful picture book is entertaining and educational at the same time. Using basic but descriptive English and Spanish vocabulary, the simple story introduces different types of dogs as perceived by a young girl who appears to be a great dog lover. The illustrations are particularly strong, filled with humorous but also surprisingly accurate depictions of the dog breeds. The simple, vivid text has a pleasing cadence that lends itself to reading aloud. --Stella Clark Copyright 2006 Booklist
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-K-This simple, yet entertaining title makes use of a wide array of breeds to demonstrate the concept of opposites. The story begins with a girl waking up in her bedroom, which is decorated with canine posters, stuffed animals, floppy slippers, night-light, even a doggy alarm clock. As she looks out her window, an excited pack of dogs runs by. Big dog. Little dog....Where are they going? Glick must have had a grand time drawing urban street scenes filled with mutts as readers follow the child and her father to the bus stop. Wide dogs and narrow dogs, fast and slow dogs, clean and dirty dogs, smooth and curly dogs romp through the town. They visit the library, run around the town-square fountain, enjoy the playground slides, and even make time for a spot of grooming. Every few pages, the author asks, Where are they going? Finally, in one joyful leap, they all plunge wildly into a body of water, along with the youngster. What the book lacks in plot development it makes up for in the sheer exuberance of the watercolor cartoons. A must for dog lovers and a good choice for beginning readers in either language. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Featuring lots of short words, thematic repetition and paired antonyms, Guy's latest is great for short read-alouds with preschoolers as well as first reading experiences for kindergartners and first graders. Youngsters will enjoy matching the descriptive words (wide/narrow, ancho/estrecho, etc.) to the appropriate dogs and will flip pages hurriedly to join the young protagonist in finding the answer to the repeated hook, "¯Ad¿nde van? Where are they going?" Because the text is fully bilingual, with both Spanish and English texts side by side, speakers of either or both languages will be able to point to and recognize the basic words. Glick's illustrations use strong black outlines and slightly muted colors to create zesty, busy scenes of dogs playing on the slides at school, being groomed and even joining a bird to look down from a roof to the street below. Short, breezy and full of activity. (Picture book. 2-6) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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