How Dogs Really Work!

I love this book so much I am putting it in my category for favorite dog books. As I currently have no grandchildren (STILL!!!), I have to imagine reading to a small child like I fondly remember when my boys where little. And for me, it is all about all the details and quirky things to read and discuss with that child. This is a great book for that. So many quirky details and intricate drawings would make it a joy to look at over and over again. Then if your dog had to go to the vet, you could go to that page in the book and talk about how the vet goes in to fix the internal parts.

Here is the from the start of the book:

What is a dog?
A dog is a four-legged animal that eats, sleeps, runs around, and smells when wet! It has a nose, a tail show more for wagging, and strange ears. These ears can hear food from half a mile away, but cannot hear 'NO' from three feet. If you throw something for a dog, he may go and get it, but he's not very likely to give it back - this is called "Fetch." Dogs also make a lots of noise, have wet noses, sticky tongues, and many disgusting habits. show less

I love this book so much I am putting it in my category for favorite dog books. As I currently have no grandchildren (STILL!!!), I have to imagine reading to a small child like I fondly remember when my boys where little. And for me, it is all about all the details and quirky things to read and discuss with that child. This is a great book for that. So many quirky details and intricate drawings would make it a joy to look at over and over again. Then if your dog had to go to the vet, you could go to that page in the book and talk about how the vet goes in to fix the internal parts.

Here is the from the start of the book:

What is a dog?
A dog is a four-legged animal that eats, sleeps, runs around, and smells when wet! It has a nose, a tail show more for wagging, and strange ears. These ears can hear food from half a mile away, but cannot hear 'NO' from three feet. If you throw something for a dog, he may go and get it, but he's not very likely to give it back - this is called "Fetch." Dogs also make a lots of noise, have wet noses, sticky tongues, and many disgusting habits. show less

"A dog is a four-legged animal that eats, sleeps, runs, and smells when wet!" I am 100% an animal lover, my favorite animals are dogs! It came to no surprise that this book was the best and the cutest. The book is like a manual of a car only that it's about a dog. The book shows what the dog is made up of and how a dog functions. The book even tells you how a dog communicates and what happens when a dog encounters a cat. I loved the book and it gives so much information about dogs, I learned things that I did not know. This was a cute and creative book.

How Dogs Really Work! by Alan Snow is a rather silly instructional book about the biology and domesticative culture of dogs, detailing their biology in strange machine-based allegorical terms, and their behavior in terms that are a bit more concrete and fact-based. I stress that the book is indeed very silly, but that it can certainly explain to children who wish to own dogs some of the responsibilities associated with owning an animal. The book acts as sort of a faux manual for how to own and "operate" a dog, and though much of the book is "silly" it still instructs children about what they can expect from the animal.

A clever book about the parts of a dog. While the inside depictions are of machines that make a dog work, most of the description of how a dog works- though general- is very accurate. The illustrations are fascinating, and humorous, ex: file cabinets full of things the dog has to remember in its brain.

Teaching Extension:
Have students create a reference guide for how different body systems operate, with similar illustrations and captions as this book.

This book is too cute! It tells kids all about how dogs! It goes from nose to tail all about dogs! This book is filled with all kinds of fun facts but it also has some silly things that children will love. But, the most important thing about this book is it is filled with so many scientific facts that will teach children how to raise and be responsible with any pet. I think this will be a great book to get a kids if the parent is thinking about adding a pet to their family. I enjoyed reading this book!