See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog /

By: LaRochelle, David [author.]Contributor(s): Wohnoutka, Mike [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Somerville : Candlewick Press, 2020Description: 64 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781536204278 :Subject(s): Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction | Children's / Teenage fiction: Animal stories | Children's / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories | Children's / Teenage general interest: Dogs & wolves | Educational: first/native language: readers & reading schemesSummary: Move over, Spot. . . . Spoofing classic primers, Max the Dog talks back to the book in a twist that will have fans of funny early readers howling.See Max. Max is not a cat-Max is a dog. But much to Max's dismay, the book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a DOG? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, author David LaRochelle introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly emphatic dialogue that the text is not to his liking. Illustrator Mike Wohnoutka hilariously depicts the pup's reactions to the narrator and to the wacky cast of characters who upend Max's-and readers'-expectations as the three stories build to an immensely satisfying conclusion. Hooray, Max, hooray!
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Move over, Spot. . . . Spoofing classic primers, Max the Dog talks back to the book in a twist that will have fans of funny early readers howling.See Max. Max is not a cat-Max is a dog. But much to Max's dismay, the book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a DOG? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, author David LaRochelle introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly emphatic dialogue that the text is not to his liking. Illustrator Mike Wohnoutka hilariously depicts the pup's reactions to the narrator and to the wacky cast of characters who upend Max's-and readers'-expectations as the three stories build to an immensely satisfying conclusion. Hooray, Max, hooray!

11 - US school grade range: From P To 3 ; 17 - Interest age, years: From 4 To 8