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Dogs of all shapes and sizes bark from one to ten.Tags
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Boynton panders and kind of bugs me, but the page where you do ten dogs with ten barks is worth the price of admission alone.
There are ten dogs in this book. (And one cat.) Each dog (and cat) has its own way of making lots of noise. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to make a public nuisance of yourself by BARKING AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS! AROOFF! AROOFF! AROOFF!
That really just about sums it up.
If you think you can't manage it - don't buy the book. But if you think you *can*, you're bound to have great fun with it. I promise :)
Just... don't expect your kids to learn their numbers this way. They'll get too caught up with the barking!
That really just about sums it up.
If you think you can't manage it - don't buy the book. But if you think you *can*, you're bound to have great fun with it. I promise :)
Just... don't expect your kids to learn their numbers this way. They'll get too caught up with the barking!
This is hilarious, and makes me hoarse each time I try to bark my way through it. Makes Liam pay strict attention.
Sandra Boynton’s children’s books are new classics. I first discovered her delightful picture books via my sister-in-law, who had an entire shelf of Boynton’s books for my nephew. Now, with my own little boy, I’m really enjoying them. Her books all claim “serious silliness” on the back cover. I’d agree: we all enjoy the light-hearted silliness, but a child may still learn something. more detailed review on my blog
What a great book for sounds, and also teaching kids about dogs and animals. Makes individuality a subtle lesson, as well as self-expression for everyone being different. Boynton always puts in a surprise, which is great. Mrrowr.
A counting book with dogs, with funny pictures of many different kinds of dogs, and their different barks. Our kids loved this, but the parents found that if you really tried to do all the different bark voices you'd wear out your voice! Good fun for toddlers and preschoolers.
For a while we had to read this one every night, several times. It can wear out your voice. Len and I had a set pattern of barking voices that started to emerge and became the expected sound of the book.
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Sandra Boynton was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Boynton's parents became Quakers when she was two years old. From kindergarten through 12th grade, she and her sisters attended Germantown Friends School, where their father taught English and was Head of the Upper School. She went show more on to Yale, entering in 1970 for her second year of college. She spent the second semester of her junior year studying in Paris through Wesleyan University's program. At Yale, she majored in English. Boynton intended to become a theater director. For graduate studies in drama, she attended the University of California at Berkeley for one year, then transferred to the Yale School of Drama D.F.A. program, but she did not complete the program. With the birth of her first child in 1979, Boynton postponed indefinitely a career in the theater. Boynton began designing greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings. Her designs were at the forefront of the Alternative Cards commercial movement that began in the mid-1970s. According to RPG co-founder and president Mike Keiser, over 200 million copies of Boynton's distinctive humorous cards featuring an assortment of unnamed cartoon animal characters, spare layout, and droll messages sold between 1973 and 1995. Since the 1977 release of Hippos Go Berserk!, Boynton has published many children's books, as well as several illustrated humor books for the general market. Her books are most typically for very young children, offered in the laminated paperboard format known as board books. Five of her books have been New York Times best sellers: Chocolate: The Consuming Passion; Frog Trouble and Eleven Other Pretty Serious Songs; Yay, You!; Consider Love; and Philadelphia Chickens, which reached the number one position on the list, and was on the list for nearly a year. Two of her books are Publisher's Weekly bestsellers, Dinosaur Dance!, and Eek! Halloween!. Three of Boynton's books are on the Publishers Weekly All-Time Bestselling Children's Books list. More than 30 million copies of her books have been sold. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Doggies: A Counting and Barking Book
- Original title
- Doggies: A Counting and Barking Book
- Original publication date
- 1984; 1995 (Newly revised edition) (Newly revised edition)
- Dedication
- For Laurie and Bad Dog Carl
- First words
- 1
One dog.
WOOF! - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Mrrroww!
And one cat. - Original language
- English
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