Pup and Hound Play Copycats

Pup and Hound

by Susan Hood, Linda Hendry (Illustrator)

Up and down the farmyard and over hill and stream, Pup follows Hound and copies everything he does! Poor Hound is tired of playing this game. Will he be able to teach tagalong Pup some new tricks? This Level 1 first reader contains short stories, simple sentences, easy vocabulary, simple visual clues and lots of repetition.

32 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2007

About the author

Susan Hood is the award-winning author of many books for young readers, including Ada's Violin; Lifeboat 12; The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics; Shaking Things Up; Titan and the Wild Boars: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team; and We Are One: How the World Adds Up.

Susan is the recipient of an E. B. White Read-Aloud Picture Book Honor, the Christopher Award, the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, the Golden Kite Award, and the Bank Street Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, given annually for “a distinguished work of nonfiction that serves as an inspiration to young people.”

COMING IN MARCH, 2022!
Susan's newest book is Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis. Co-authored with Anna's (a.k.a. Zhanna's) son Greg Dawson, this biography in verse celebrates the life-saving power of the arts.

Reviews

[Joanna]

Poor Hound just wants to be left alone, but Pup keeps copying him and following him around—until the end when it’s Hound following Pup home for dinner. The sentences are simple and the rhyming words at the end of most of them should help new readers as they work through them.

[The Book Box]

Mom and I read this book tonight.

[Kate Hastings]

Simple rhyming text about a puppy that does everything a big dog does. Some words have multiple syllables. Not as "easy" as the easiest books, but still great for beginning readers. The illustrations are colorful and appealing.

[Tam]

Cute rhyming book for a beginning reader.

Excerpt from the book:
What was that?
An old leather shoe!
Pup pulled it away.
He wanted it, too.
So Hound chased the ducks quacking their song.
Pup dropped the shoe, then tagged along.