By Henry Winkler, Lin Oliver
Hank finally talks his dad into a dog, and then the dog gets loose in the park and his dad wants it gone.
Hank has wanted a dog for his entire life and has finally, somehow, worn his father down. At the shelter he sees a wiener dog going round and round after his own tail, so long and so curled that he looks like a Cheerio, and that is that: Cheerio is the Zipzer dog, decided, no discussion. Then Cheerio gets off the leash in the park and runs, and Mr. Zipzer's patience, which was thin to start with, snaps. He says the dog goes back. Hank has to prove he wasn't the one who let go, and he has to do it fast, because the shelter is real and his father is not bluffing.
Same Dyslexie font as the rest of the series, same wide letter spacing, same big margins, same 128 short pages — so if the first Hank went down, this asks nothing new of your child and gives them a second win. What it adds is a plot with something at stake that a six-year-old cares about enormously: the dog might be taken away, and it might be Hank's fault. Children who will not sit still for a book will sit still for that. And these stand alone, so it does not matter which one your child picks up first.