This was one of my favorite books as a kid. How could it not be? Full of dogs driving cars and on the go! Man those dogs were industrious.
I was house/dog sitting for a family with two excellent black labs last year. In the guest room I was staying in I was clearing a chair and I found Go, Dog, Go! I promptly sat down to read it cover to cover.
Now as an adult, I look at the ending with a more double entendre meaning... So to leave my mark and amuse anyone mature enough to be playfully immature, I scribbled in legible print "Brown Chicken, Brown Cow".
I loved this book! All the dogs end up partying in a tree. The other big fave from that developmental stage was "Put me in the Zoo" and the Richard Scarry books.
Not familiar with Go Dog Go, I will add it to my summer reading list. I am familiar with another by Eastman “ Are you my Mother?” It has a good surprise ending.
For Eastertide reading I might recommend “The Runaway Bunny” by Clement Heard. The most sublime explanation of God seeking out the soul of the sinner.
Another recommendation involving lost rabbits, good for children 8 years on up to adults, is "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo. We listened to it as an audio book first and loved it.
This is the opening quote before the title page:
The heart break and breaks and lives by breaking. It is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn. --from "the Testing Tree," by Stanley Kunitz
Favorite rabbit story from the Scarry set involved Mrs.Rabbit shouting "Dump it there!' in full voice to Mr Rabbit who was standing on the other page with a loaded wheelbarrow looking to her for directions. And as a result of her yelling, ALL the Trucks, two pages FULL of loaded trucks of every kind and shape, dumped ALL their loads RIGHT THERE! It was more mess than Mrs Rabbit, Mr Rabbit and the Gold Bug knew how to handle.
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Some things are not as they seem.
Go, Dog. Go! is a 1961 children's book written and illustrated by P. D. Eastman.
This was one of my favorite books as a kid. How could it not be? Full of dogs driving cars and on the go! Man those dogs were industrious.
I was house/dog sitting for a family with two excellent black labs last year. In the guest room I was staying in I was clearing a chair and I found Go, Dog, Go! I promptly sat down to read it cover to cover.
Now as an adult, I look at the ending with a more double entendre meaning... So to leave my mark and amuse anyone mature enough to be playfully immature, I scribbled in legible print "Brown Chicken, Brown Cow".
Hooray for colored animals.
I loved this book! All the dogs end up partying in a tree. The other big fave from that developmental stage was "Put me in the Zoo" and the Richard Scarry books.
Not familiar with Go Dog Go, I will add it to my summer reading list. I am familiar with another by Eastman “ Are you my Mother?”
It has a good surprise ending.
For Eastertide reading I might recommend “The Runaway Bunny” by Clement Heard. The most sublime explanation of God seeking out the soul of the sinner.
Another recommendation involving lost rabbits, good for children 8 years on up to adults, is "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo. We listened to it as an audio book first and loved it.
This is the opening quote before the title page:
The heart break and breaks
and lives by breaking.
It is necessary to go
through dark and deeper dark
and not to turn.
--from "the Testing Tree," by Stanley Kunitz
Richard Scarry books.
Favorite rabbit story from the Scarry set involved Mrs.Rabbit shouting "Dump it there!' in full voice to Mr Rabbit who was standing on the other page with a loaded wheelbarrow looking to her for directions. And as a result of her yelling, ALL the Trucks, two pages FULL of loaded trucks of every kind and shape, dumped ALL their loads RIGHT THERE! It was more mess than Mrs Rabbit, Mr Rabbit and the Gold Bug knew how to handle.
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