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Mr. Putney's Quacking Dog (2010)

by Jon Agee(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0545162033 (ISBN13: 9780545162036)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Michael di Capua Books

review 1: Mr. Putney's Quacking Dog was honestly extremely fun for me to read. Basically, it's a book all about animal puns using Mr. Putney's animals. For example, the first page starts off by asking what wakes Mr. Putney up in the morning. On the next page, you see a picture of an armadillo, and they answer the question with "an alarmadillo." Basically, this is how the entire book goes, with no real plot, but its still fun to see what kind of puns the author comes up with (socktopus, cramel, etc.)I think this book would be great to read to a lower level class, like kindergarten or first grade. An activity you could do with the kids is to read the book with them, and then explain what a pun is in simplistic terms. Then, by splitting them up into small groups, have them create their... more own puns with other animals that weren't in the book, while at the same time having them draw a picture of their animal and how they think it'd fit into the book. This would really give everyone a chance to be creative for the project, and would also teach them about drawing skills and a new language device.Citation:Agee, J. (2010). Mr. Putney's Quacking Dog. New York: Scholastic.
review 2: My word--I laughed so hard at a few of these. Very clever and exactly what my friend David would love to read/joke about. It's probably over quite a few kids' heads and the humor would go away after having to explain a lot of them. Older kids would probably enjoy this more. And if the young kids don't get the jokes, they can at least enjoy the humor in some of the pictures. Then again, if my sister read this to young ones, they'd laugh their heads off even if they didn't get why it was funny--because my sister is fabulous that way when it comes to reading picture books aloud.5 stars for all the laughing. less

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