Doug Counts Down

by Pam Muñoz Ryan, Matthew C. Peters (Illustrator), Tim Chi Ly (Illustrator)

To get money to buy his dog Porkchop's favorite treat for his birthday, Doug gets a job selling ice cream, but the ten cones Doug wanted for Porkchop are sold one-by-one to customers

32 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1998

About the author

Pam Muñoz Ryan is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, ECHO, a 2016 Newbery Honor Book, and winner of the Kirkus Prize. She has written over forty books for young people—picture books, early readers, and middle grade and young adult novels. She the author recipient of the NEA's Human and Civil Rights Award, the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award, the Willa Cather Award, the Pura Belpré medal, the PEN USA award, and many others. Her novels include Esperanza Rising, Riding Freedom, Becoming Naomi León, Paint the Wind, The Dreamer, and Echo. She was born and raised in Bakersfield, California, holds a bachelor's and master's degree from San Diego State University and lives in north San Diego county with her family.

Reviews

[Danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Randomly just stumbled across this book from my youth. I haven’t thought about it in years. Also I find it so bizarre that it was written by the author of Esperanza Rising. What completely different categories these two books fall into.

[Angela (Kentuckybooklover) Brocato-Skaggs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hornak, Roby Elementary, Kindergarten