Review by Booklist Review
This latest entry in the I Can Read! series about floppy-haired Biscuit sees the pooch and a girl in a blooming garden, where they look at flowers, find a worm, and feed the birds. For each exciting thing the girl points out in the garden, Biscuit answers with a Woof! Woof! Once birds are introduced, there's a cacophony of tweets to add to the woofs. Emergent readers will have fun with these sound words, which are reinforced through repetition, and with the other basic one- and two-syllable words throughout (there's also a three-syllable challenge: butterfly). The lively illustrations portray a curious canine who, of course, gets himself into some harmless mischief. Another fun outing with Capucilli's lovable doggy.--Kelley, Ann Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Horn Book Review
Biscuit's little girl points to all the wonderful things in her garden. The puppy, however, is more interested in the birds. When he jumps on and spills the bag of birdseed, the garden is suddenly filled with far more than just pretty flowers. The pleasant pictures of the lovable pup carry the simple, amusing story. (c) Copyright 2013. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
This book will not only make children want to garden, it will make them want a dog and a bird, too. The Biscuit books are spectacularly good at getting children to read, but, surprisingly, they also teach grown-ups how to read them. They're missing the usual cues that help adults make sense of a text. For example, there are no quotation marks. This makes passages of dialogue very accessible to beginning readers but a puzzle to their parents. In some scenes, most of the dialogue is either "Woof, woof!" or "Tweet! Tweet!" Readers can imagine that the book is teaching them to talk to animals. There are children's books that are classics because they speak equally to children and adults. This book is not one of them. The plot is slight: Biscuit spills birdseed in the garden. Birds flock happily around him. But no matter what the parents think, children will want to read it again and again, and that makes it a classic for them. The simplicity of the story makes it work, as it has since the beginning of the series: Dog. Birds. Garden. And, with patience, adults can learn to enjoy it as well. (Early reader. 3-5)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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