By Elizabeth Carney
A first fact book for the child who wants to know everything about dogs, from why they wag to how they smell the world.
This is a fact book made for a child who is dog-crazy and reading on their own now. It's full of real dogs, big and tiny, working and lazy, with photographs on every page and just enough words to carry a new reader through. They'll find out how a dog uses its nose, why puppies chew everything in sight, what different breeds were first bred to do, and a whole pile of facts they'll be reciting back to you by dinner.
For a dog-obsessed child just starting to read on their own, a fact book about the thing they already love does half the work for you. The sentences are sized for a new reader, the photographs pull them along, and every spread hands them a real fact to collect. It's the kind of nonfiction a reluctant reader will actually sit with, because they aren't reading to practice, they're reading to find out. And it's part of a big leveled series, so there's plenty more waiting when they're ready.