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Dogs, Dogs, Dogs!
A celebration of man's best friend takes youngsters on a rollicking ride with all kinds of dogs, dogs, dogs, in a hilarious picture book filled with lively illustrations. 15,000 first printing.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 2002
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About the author
Lesléa Newman
106 books251 followersLesléa Newman (born 1955, Brooklyn, NY) is the author of over 50 books including Heather Has Two Mommies, A Letter To Harvey Milk, Writing From The Heart, In Every Laugh a Tear, The Femme Mystique, Still Life with Buddy, Fat Chance and Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear.
She has received many literary awards including Poetry Fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Highlights for Children Fiction Writing Award, the James Baldwin Award for Cultural Achievement, and two Pushcart Prize Nominations.
Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award finalists.
Ms. Newman wrote Heather Has Two Mommies, the first children's book to portray lesbian families in a positive way, and has followed up this pioneering work with several more children's books on lesbian and gay families: Gloria Goes To Gay Pride, Belinda's Bouquet, Too Far Away to Touch, and Saturday Is Pattyday.
She is also the author of many books for adults that deal with lesbian identity, Jewish identity and the intersection and collision between the two. Other topics Ms. Newman explores include AIDS, eating disorders, butch/femme relationships and sexual abuse. Her award-winning short story, A Letter To Harvey Milk has been made into a film and adapted for the stage.
In addition to being an author, Ms. Newman is a popular guest lecturer, and has spoken on college campuses across the country including Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Oregon, Bryn Mawr College, Smith College and the University of Judaism. From 2005-2009, Lesléa was a faculty member of the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. Currently, she is the Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA.
She has received many literary awards including Poetry Fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Highlights for Children Fiction Writing Award, the James Baldwin Award for Cultural Achievement, and two Pushcart Prize Nominations.
Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award finalists.
Ms. Newman wrote Heather Has Two Mommies, the first children's book to portray lesbian families in a positive way, and has followed up this pioneering work with several more children's books on lesbian and gay families: Gloria Goes To Gay Pride, Belinda's Bouquet, Too Far Away to Touch, and Saturday Is Pattyday.
She is also the author of many books for adults that deal with lesbian identity, Jewish identity and the intersection and collision between the two. Other topics Ms. Newman explores include AIDS, eating disorders, butch/femme relationships and sexual abuse. Her award-winning short story, A Letter To Harvey Milk has been made into a film and adapted for the stage.
In addition to being an author, Ms. Newman is a popular guest lecturer, and has spoken on college campuses across the country including Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Oregon, Bryn Mawr College, Smith College and the University of Judaism. From 2005-2009, Lesléa was a faculty member of the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. Currently, she is the Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA.
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February 18, 2019
I'm taking an early childhood education class, so I'll log and review some of the books that I plan things around.
I planned a little lesson with popsicle stick puppets of dogs, but I'm not sure if I really got the kid's interest with the lesson.
I think this book is great for an early childhood classroom because it has expressive watercolor pictures of dogs having fun, and the dogs are listed as 1-10 dogs, so it also helps with valuable counting skills and "number sense," or matching numbers with quantities. Kids can relate to the images and think of things that happen that are similar to their own lives, or their own pets.
The one thing I think is less appealing to kids in this book is the lack of a clear story with a climax or a beginning, middle, and end. It also lacks diversity in the people who are shown, although there is variation in the dogs themselves.
Overall I'm glad I brought this into the classroom. I think it went over well and other preschoolers would likely enjoy it too.
I planned a little lesson with popsicle stick puppets of dogs, but I'm not sure if I really got the kid's interest with the lesson.
I think this book is great for an early childhood classroom because it has expressive watercolor pictures of dogs having fun, and the dogs are listed as 1-10 dogs, so it also helps with valuable counting skills and "number sense," or matching numbers with quantities. Kids can relate to the images and think of things that happen that are similar to their own lives, or their own pets.
The one thing I think is less appealing to kids in this book is the lack of a clear story with a climax or a beginning, middle, and end. It also lacks diversity in the people who are shown, although there is variation in the dogs themselves.
Overall I'm glad I brought this into the classroom. I think it went over well and other preschoolers would likely enjoy it too.
April 9, 2011
A clever counting "tail" with dogs as the countable objects. Fun watercolor illustrations but being watercolor sometimes makes it hard for kids to "count" the dogs in some scenes.
November 19, 2017
Concept. 2002. This book was a very simple read. The illustrations were done with watercolor and while you read you were able to count all of the dogs. I like that the book was engaging with the self-counting, but I felt that it could have had more of a story to it or more numbers included somehow.
June 23, 2021
Basic counting book with some frolics in between. My toddler likes Sandra Boynton's dog book better, but this one has some interesting illustrations.
February 25, 2014
We recently read Cats, Cats, Cats! by Lesléa Newman and thought it was a fun, rhyming tale. As I began logging it here on Goodreads, I discovered this book as well as Pigs, Pigs, Pigs! and thought we'd borrow them from the library as well.
This is a fun rhyming tale about dogs out and about having an adventure. It's a counting story, but the antics of the dogs are certainly the focus. The illustrations are colorful, but the watercolors seemed to blur the images of the dogs a bit too much. Still, we enjoyed reading this book together.
This is a fun rhyming tale about dogs out and about having an adventure. It's a counting story, but the antics of the dogs are certainly the focus. The illustrations are colorful, but the watercolors seemed to blur the images of the dogs a bit too much. Still, we enjoyed reading this book together.
February 21, 2016
I this is a nice counting book. It allows kids to count the dogs as they go through town getting in shenanigans. This book does not show the numerical numbers that correspond to the written numbers, and I feel like having the actual number there would be beneficial for children. Aside from that, I think that this book is really cute and really helpful for children.
August 5, 2010
Mommy says: Lovely watercolors and cute (but not sappy) counting concept.
February 10, 2012
This is a counting book with dogs as the subject. I wasn't a big fan of the watercolor illustrations as they sometimes blended the dogs together, making them difficult to see.
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