I Am the Dog

I had mixed feelings about this book after reading it. I liked the book because of the characters, which consisted of a boy named Jacob, a dog named Max, and the mom and dad. Jacob and Max switch lives for a day, and the book is about their experiences. This makes the characters believable because if a kid is using their imagination, they have wondered what it would be like to be their dog. I also liked the illustrations of the book. The drawings were in a cartoon style, which matched with the flow of the language in the book, and they accurately depicted what the author was trying to say. What I disliked about the book was that there was not a meaningful message that the readers could take away from reading. The point of the story was show more for amusement, so the message was that being a dog is better than being a young boy. show less

I thought the book told a funny story about a about a boy Jacob and his dog Max. The two switched places for the day and used humor to explain both of their experiences throughout the day. I really enjoyed the illustrations and found them very comical.

Jacob is the boy and Max is the dog until one night when they decided to be each other the following day. Children will identify with the bright and humorous pictures which detail the everyday events of a young boy and a dog. The boys eats his food from a bowl on the floor, and the dog goes to school. In the end, they both learn that "being a dog is better."
The setting and plot are easy for children to identify with. they can easily “read” the story to themselves even before they can read words.
Theme: friendship, self acceptance, understanding others
Audience PreK-5

Jacob is the boy and max is the dog, until the day they decide to trade places. It turns out that Jacob loves everything about being a dog (including kibble!) and Max enjoys school and video games. Why did I enjoy this book? Besides the story and the big, goofy pictures? For the moral, of course - "Being a dog is better." Cute!
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In my opinion this book was very enjoyable and I admired how the author wrote this book. The writing in the book was engaging to me I wanted to keep reading about the different things that the boy Jacob had to do as a dog. The characters were well developed but somewhat imaginative because I know as an adult we know that children can not talk to their pets or pretend to be their pets. As a child they will read this book and want to do just what Jacob does, but their parents might not like that. The book has illustrations and pictures on every page, and with every picture the words on the page matched. I liked the pictures because they were drawn very well, they helped me imagine the different events and obstacles Jacob had to do when he show more was pretending to be his dog Max. The big idea that I took from the book would be that we have to be ourselves and that there is always good parts and bad parts to a persons life. show less

This book was about a boy who traded places with his dog for the day and they did everything that each other would normally do. Which included, the dog went to school, the dog did homework, and the dog got to sit at the dinner table. I thought this book was very cute but did not seem to find a central message.

The illustrations were very entertaining and the story line was cute.

I did not like this book for a few reasons. The first reason I did not like this story was because it just did not grab my attention. I thought it was too silly. The second reason I didn't like this book was because of the illustrations. I thought they looked kind of sloppy. I did like one of the last pages of the book because the boy and the dog learned something about each other by walking in each other's shoes.