Rosa Goes to Daycare

Rosa

by Barbro Lindgren, Eva Eriksson (Illustrator), Maria Lundin (Translator)

Rosa is disgusted: her aunt has decided to send her to a doggie daycare center. There she faces an unknown routine -- and all kinds of rules. But Rosa soon makes great friends and even finds adventure in the great outdoors. Written in a bouncy-puppy style with charming illustrations, Rosa Goes to Daycare will help reassure any child beginning preschool.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction, Pets, Animals

32 pages, Hardcover

First published July 6, 2000

About the author

Barbro Enskog was born in Bromma, Stockholm. She graduated from art school in 1958 and has been writing books for publication since 1965. Her style has exerted a major influence on Swedish children's literature. Located between realism and surrealism, her works are humorous and imaginative, and her books for children treat important issues to be taken seriously and treated for children.
Early in her career Barbro Lindgren won the 1973 Astrid Lindgren Prize, an annual Swedish literary award distinct from the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The once-in-a-lifetime award established on Astrid Lindgren's 60th birthday honours good writing for children or youth. Barbro Lindgren's long-time collaborator, the illustrator Eva Eriksson (born 1949), won the Prize in 2001.

Reviews

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

**Random thoughts**

Doggy daycare, told mostly from the dogs POV. The falling in the ice water made me gasp! Overall cute.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Doggie daycare as an effective analogy for kids day care - from anxiety, bugs in the fur, outings and coughs - it's all there. Lovely illustrations.

Read via Open Library https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15124...

[Stacy Renee (LazyDayLit) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rosa isn't the best-behaved pup so she is sent to daycare where she meets many other dogs, all of which are friendly.

Read for the 1001 Children's Books to Read Before You Grow Up List.

[Fjóla · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wasn't impressed with this book. In fact, I found it terribly tedious to read. A dog goes to a doggy daycare, and then later falls into icy water because she does not listen. I suppose the point of this book is to reassure the child who is starting daycare, and recognize their fears, but the text is lengthy and definitely not appropriate but for a 3-4 year old with a good attention span (by the time which they probably know everything about daycare anyway) and the details provided in the text are just not that interesting. It was sort of like hearing a mother going on and on about the most mundane, trivial things in her infants day, the things that have no conversational interest except maybe to the very parents.

The main character Rosa is a neurotic, non obedient dog and it's sort of implied that this is why she's sent to daycare (not sure what the message to the child is here), but at daycare she meets even stranger characters such as the male dog who loves all female dogs, and thus he shares a room with only females and takes turns sleeping with them in their baskets (WTF!) And then the icy water incident: I think the "daycare ladies" (and this is how they're referred to) should have taken better care to explain and teach the rules to the dogs before they took them on field trip with disastrous consequences.

All in all, the book just left me puzzled, so worthless did I find it. My kid sat through it, but I doubt he'll ask for a reread. The illustrations in black, white and mostly brown colors are okay, somewhat dull, but didn't tie terribly well in with the text. And I soon gave up on trying to figure out which dog was which, as there weren't really enough clues in the text anyway, lengthy as it still was. But maybe I just don't care enough about dogs in general. And, unfortunately my son didn't seem to care all that much either. However, if you really like dogs, I'd recommend the so much more fun See Me Run.

[Corinne · Rating 3 out of 5]

An older child (5-8, maybe?) level picture book in which Rosa the dog attends doggy daycare for the first time. We're meant to see the dogs as having some of the same characteristics as kids (No mean dogs allowed, chewing your blanket at nap is too babyish, everyone has to stay away from danger on walks). I think this would make a dog lover out of a kid, but nothing here really reassures a kid worried about daycare as advertised, and so much time is spent introducing each dog we lose the thread of first-time daycare a bit anyway.

The illustrations are gorgeous and I love that there is a dog breed/character intro at the end. Great for kids who love dogs, lame for kids apprehensive of daycare.

[Jenna]

This book would be great to read to a new class in either pre k or kindergarten or a child who is afariad of the first day of schoool. It uses personification to bring a dogs story about their first time at daycare to relate to that of a childs. Thsi could be used to comfort a nervous child and give them hope that they too will have a good time a daycare too;

[Charlotte · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not really sure what the point of Rosa goes to Daycare is. It feels like two stories jammed together. It starts as a really good story about what its like to go to daycare through the eyes of a dog. It ends with the dog falling into an icy lake. I am sure young readers will appreciate the dogs, and relate to the daycare experiences, but the conclusion of the story drives my adult mind crazy.

[Nessy Bologna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am a proud bull terrier's owner: usually animals are used as metaphores for kids (like: little mouse doesn't want to go to school and yaddayadda), while here the dog behaviour is typical bull terrierierish and very realistic! It is a fantasy world where dogs go to daycare and that is like the cherry on top :D lovely

[Robyn Watt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love dogs and this was a great book about Rosa's first experience at a doggy day care. Helps with dog identification and seeing how dogs see each other, easy book to read with nice illustrations of the dogs

[Danica Midlil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Isn't it amazing how much dogs are like toddlers? ;)

[Kristal · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn’t find this story to be that engaging; it was quite long winded and the ending kind of random.

[Tapani Aulu · Rating 1 out of 5]

Aika tylsä koira päiväkodissa -kirja. No eipä siinä kauan aikaa mennyt hukkaan.

[Frans Kempe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mysigt bok för barn om ett hunddagis

[Tammy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring.

[Sherri · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the book, but the ending was a little strange.