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Mr. Putney's Quacking Dog
by
Jon Agee
From Jon Agee ("a comic master," SLJ), a hilarious book of animal riddles
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
August 1st 2010
by Michael di Capua Books
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I love puns. Frankly, I couldn’t have groan up in my family without loving them. So this book is write up my alley! Mr. Putney has a lot of animal friends, but you have to guess their names. The word play is a combination of illustrations and words with half of the joke coming from the text and half from the pictures. Some of the word play is easier than others, but all is amusing and some will have you laughing out loud. This book would be a stitch with a group of kids who enjoy reading and wor...more
Meet Mr. Putney’s menagerie of animal friends in this pun-tastic book. Each page features a riddle in question form about the name of one of Mr. Putney’s friends. Turn the page to find out the answer. Can you guess which of Mr. Putney’s friends has cold feet? Why, it’s the socktopus, of course! How about the messiest lunch companion? The slobster!
Agee’s simple, yet quirky style adds a delightful atmosphere to this riddle-filled book. This book is a celebration of puns, rather than a book with an...more
Agee’s simple, yet quirky style adds a delightful atmosphere to this riddle-filled book. This book is a celebration of puns, rather than a book with an...more
A pun is defined by Webster's dictionary as:
"the humorous use of a word or words, which are formed or sounded alike but have different meanings, in such a way as to play on two or more of the possible applications; a play on words."
Mr. Putney is full of puns, the smart, roll your eyes and groan kind. His animal friends all have unusual names, the quacking dog (dachshund) on the cover? A Duckshund Study the pictures and the animal shown to determine the animal’s puny name, try to see how man...more
"the humorous use of a word or words, which are formed or sounded alike but have different meanings, in such a way as to play on two or more of the possible applications; a play on words."
Mr. Putney is full of puns, the smart, roll your eyes and groan kind. His animal friends all have unusual names, the quacking dog (dachshund) on the cover? A Duckshund Study the pictures and the animal shown to determine the animal’s puny name, try to see how man...more
I LOVED this book! I took it home to read to my husband (who isn't one who will willingly let me read him picture books often!) and we both had a blast with it.
Mr. Putney's Quacking Dog is full of world play. Who wakes Mr. Putney up in the morning? An ALARMadillo!! The drawings are fun and have a classic, James Marshall/Jules Feiffer feel to them.
But the illustrations are just half the fun. Reading the book and trying to figure out what the animal name is what makes the book. And not all the a...more
Mr. Putney's Quacking Dog is full of world play. Who wakes Mr. Putney up in the morning? An ALARMadillo!! The drawings are fun and have a classic, James Marshall/Jules Feiffer feel to them.
But the illustrations are just half the fun. Reading the book and trying to figure out what the animal name is what makes the book. And not all the a...more
My word--I laughed so hard at a few of these. Very clever and exactly what my friend David would love to read/joke about. It's probably over quite a few kids' heads and the humor would go away after having to explain a lot of them. Older kids would probably enjoy this more. And if the young kids don't get the jokes, they can at least enjoy the humor in some of the pictures. Then again, if my sister read this to young ones, they'd laugh their heads off even if they didn't get why it was funny--be...more
In Mr. Putney's Quacking Dog, it's not Mr. Putney's house that is unusual per se, but rather Mr. Putney's animal friends, who help Mr. Putney accomplish the multiple little tasks that make up his day. Waking up in the morning is easy when you have an alarmadillo, and what else do you use to measure your nephew but a goruler? Some of his friends are pets, like his quacking dog (a duckshund) and some seem to be more like neighbors, like the socktopus living in his pool.
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This is the kind of book that I first encountered by Jon Agee back when he was writing books of palindromes. I liked it then and I like this now. This is just silly and fun. His many animal friends are all of the non-traditional variety and are slightly altered from their traditional fellow animals in a way that Mr. Putney accepts. They are all renamed in accordance with their special skill and Mr. Putney finds a way to address and accommodate their special skill in his daily life. There is much...more
No plot here, just a series of silly animal puns (Who wakes Mr Putney up in the morning? An alarmadillo!).
Agee's typical cartoony illustrations make this book full of awesome sight gags.
Awesome book for a situation where kids can't/won't be able to listen to a full story and you want to keep them interested. The word play will be especially appreciated by preschoolers/early elementary groups who are just learning about puns and such.
Agee's typical cartoony illustrations make this book full of awesome sight gags.
Awesome book for a situation where kids can't/won't be able to listen to a full story and you want to keep them interested. The word play will be especially appreciated by preschoolers/early elementary groups who are just learning about puns and such.
Ready to expose your child to play on words and puns? This picture book full of picture clues and short simple sentences is just the ticket. While not all the puns and play on words work as well as others, kids will be kept guessing how to transform each animal name into the answer for the riddle. A fun book to share.
Ready to expose your students to play on words and puns? This picture book full of picture clues and short simple sentences is just the ticket. While not all the puns and play on words work as well as others, kids will be kept guessing how to transform each animal name into the answer for the riddle. A fun book to share.
Ready to expose your child to play on words and puns? This picture book full of picture clues and short simple sentences is just the ticket. While not all the puns and play on words work as well as others, kids will be kept guessing how to transform each animal name into the answer for the riddle. A fun book to share.
I absolutely loved this book! I can totally see using this book to teach vocabulary. It is a fun twist on puns. I think my students would giggle their way through the whole book. It would be fun to read a page a day and have the students guess during the day what the answer to each question would be. It would teach the students to study the pictures for clues and expand their vocabulary.
I confess up front that I'm a huge fan of Jon Agee's work. That said, I enjoy books that get me to laugh and I love books that keep me laughing. The combination of word play, guessing game and goofy humor definitely kept me laughing. Especially enjoyable are Mr. Putney's subtle reaction shots to his animal companions.
Mr. Putney's unusual animal friends carry names that blend their animal origins and their characteristics. For example, a messy lunch companion is a slobster, and the title pet is a duckshund. Each page reveals a clue about the animals' behavior and invites readers to guess the animals' names. Fun puns and wordplay.
This is a punny book of animal riddles that is fun to read aloud. The riddles are very silly, but not always easy to figure out, so we enjoyed making guesses before we would read the answer. The puns are crazy, and the illustrations are just as wild. We enjoyed reading this book together.
This was a fun book at the preschooler story time today. The parents had more reaction to the jokes than the kids, but the kids did have fun guessing what the animals would be. I liked how the picture before the punchline would give a hint. A fun, simple, clean animal joke book for kids.
I want to use this in the high school for a little quiz game with the kids. They would get a kick out of being read a picture book. Of course I didn't get any of them right, so I really think that it's too hard for little children, but it would be a fun interactive storytime.
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Great book to use in a lesson. Some of the students creative names for the animals were better than the book. A lot of potential here! Could be used as jumping off point for several different lessons.
A fabulous picture book. This is one that adults will WANT to read to the kids. The illustrations are a hoot! I laughed out loud behind the circulation desk. Luckily, we aren't into shusss-ing anymore.
Hilarious book of word play! Might inspire children to come up with some animal pets of their own. Maybe could be used to inspire a classroom project of writing their own book of strange and unusual animals!
Pretty clever. I think my favorite was the clangeroo (I loved the illustration). Most kids will be amused by the concept, and some will probably want to design some characters of their own.
Agee strikes again. A mix of wordplay and silly illustrations. Potential joke fodder. Who wakes Mr. Putney up for work? An alarmadillo. The pictures are very immportant to the jokes.
If I hadn't already fallen in love with Animal Soup I might like this more.
I thought this was very clever and helps children to play with words. It was fun to try to guess the animals, and it would be fun to try to come up with some of your own animals!
A picture book that asks a question and plays on the word. Nice illustrations that help clue readers into the answers. Could be fun to read with first or second grade.
Mr. Putney has a lot of unusual friends. Agee's humorous play on words allows readers to learn the names of Mr. Putney's unusual friends in a fun manner.
Funny book! This book could be used to help students predict and monitor predictions as it plays on words and discusses animals in a different way.
Fantastic book of silly puns and riddles with clear, bright illustrations. My favorite? "What friend of Mr. Putney has cold feet? A socktopus!".
More of a quirky and fun play on words than an actual story. My girls (6 and 5) were a bit too young to get the word play going on.
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