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Little Golden Book Favorites: The Poky Little Puppy / Scuffy the Tugboat / The Saggy Baggy Elephant
The Poky Little Puppy
Scuffy the Tugboat
The Saggy Baggy Elephant
Three favorite Little Golden Books are gathered together in one volume - an incomparable value!
Scuffy the Tugboat
The Saggy Baggy Elephant
Three favorite Little Golden Books are gathered together in one volume - an incomparable value!
- GenresChildrensPicture Books
80 pages, Hardcover
First published August 14, 2007
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Golden Books
3,978 books103 followersIn 1942, the launch of Little Golden Books revolutionized children’s book publishing by making high-quality picture books available at affordable prices. More than 60 years later, many of the original Golden Book titles are still wildly popular, with The Poky Little Puppy topping the list of ten bestselling children’s books of all time. Golden Books’ backlist is teeming with classics such as Dorothy Kunhardt’s Pat the Bunny, and features the stories and artwork of children’s book legends Mary Blair, Margaret Wise Brown, Richard Scarry, Eloise Wilkins, Garth Williams, and many more. Today, the Golden Books imprint includes an array of storybooks, novelty books, and coloring and activity books featuring all of the most popular licenses, including Disney, Nickelodeon, Barbie, Thomas & Friends, The Cat in the Hat, Sesame Street, Marvel Super Heroes, and DC Super Friends. Golden Books continues to reissue the best of its backlist in a variety of formats, including ebooks and apps, as well as bringing out brand-new books in these evolving new formats.
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October 24, 2019
A great little collection. Three great Golden classics with important lessons and morals to learn from.
February 8, 2015
I personally enjoyed the illustrations. The artwork is very lovely and helped guide along the story.
My 5 (soon to be 6 year old) son enjoys this book greatly. I'm not a big fan of the stories, but the second (Scuffy the Tugboat) and third (The Saggy Baggy Elefant) stories are much better than the first (The Poky Little Puppy).
The first sorry is 'The Poky Little Puppy' is about five puppies that dig a hole under a fence multiple times when they are told not to. When the puppies come home they are sent to bed without dinner negate they were naughty, but the fifth puppy always comes home after the other four puppies have gone to sleep and eats the dinner. After this happens a few times the puppies fill up the hole and are caught doing so, because they did something good they got to eat their dinner. However the last puppy goes to bed hungry and feeling sorry for himself because he didn't get back in time before the other puppies closed up the hole.
The second story is 'Scuffy the Tugboat'. It's about a toy tugboat that believes he's meant for bigger things than a life in a toy store or bathtub. He sees our on an adventure on a river in spring with the help of a man and his son. Scuffy sees things and experiences things that other tugboat toys don't. at the end, he misses the man and his son and is content with just sailing from one end of the bathtub to the other.
The third sorry is 'The Saggy Baggy Elephant'. It's about an elephant named Sooki who was happy with himself till a parrot came along and laughed at him and made fun of him. He tried to change himself and almost got eaten every time. Eventually he sees other elephants who tell him he's perfect the way he is and Sooki is happy once again.
My 5 (soon to be 6 year old) son enjoys this book greatly. I'm not a big fan of the stories, but the second (Scuffy the Tugboat) and third (The Saggy Baggy Elefant) stories are much better than the first (The Poky Little Puppy).
The first sorry is 'The Poky Little Puppy' is about five puppies that dig a hole under a fence multiple times when they are told not to. When the puppies come home they are sent to bed without dinner negate they were naughty, but the fifth puppy always comes home after the other four puppies have gone to sleep and eats the dinner. After this happens a few times the puppies fill up the hole and are caught doing so, because they did something good they got to eat their dinner. However the last puppy goes to bed hungry and feeling sorry for himself because he didn't get back in time before the other puppies closed up the hole.
The second story is 'Scuffy the Tugboat'. It's about a toy tugboat that believes he's meant for bigger things than a life in a toy store or bathtub. He sees our on an adventure on a river in spring with the help of a man and his son. Scuffy sees things and experiences things that other tugboat toys don't. at the end, he misses the man and his son and is content with just sailing from one end of the bathtub to the other.
The third sorry is 'The Saggy Baggy Elephant'. It's about an elephant named Sooki who was happy with himself till a parrot came along and laughed at him and made fun of him. He tried to change himself and almost got eaten every time. Eventually he sees other elephants who tell him he's perfect the way he is and Sooki is happy once again.
February 7, 2017
These stories were written in the 40's. They didn't age well. Not sure what there point was but I didn't get it as a child, and I still don't understand as an adult.
January 5, 2012
My son has no real concept of reading yet since he's 6 months old, but this is one of the more frequent bedtime books. I read him one of the three stories in it every other night. He falls asleep to it so i guess he gets as much enjoyment out of these stories as I did.
March 31, 2013
Three stories I remember from when I was small, so nice to see them again.
April 25, 2013
Love the art, not so much the text of the three books included here. Still, these are classics of twentieth century Americana, childhood version...
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