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The Great Dog Bottom Swap (2009)

by Peter Bently(Favorite Author)

4.41 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1842708287 (ISBN13: 9781842708286)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Andersen Press

review 1: A library loan we won't be rushing to buy. Cute illustrations and good wordplay but a bit of a gross story imo. The dogs removing their bums and hanging them on coat racks didn't seem funny to me or my son and I couldn't explain why they did this to begin with. It seems like the sort of thing cooked up by a parent trying to answer a child's question of why do dogs sniff each others bottoms and it's probably as good a response as any but without the question being posed it's not the best story to read.
review 2: Before reading this rhyming book, I assumed by the title that the dogs would be swapping their hind areas including legs and tails. I thought maybe they would show the front of a Bulldog with the back end of a Great Dane or maybe the front of a Lab with... more the back of a Yorkie. I was wrong. What they really exchange are their bum-holes (to put it politely). As a parent, I thought it was gross and disgusting but my 7-year-old son thought it was hilarious (after I explained what it was supposed to be) and I guess that's the point of a children's book . . . . making the child laugh. less

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