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Bad to the Bone (Down Girl and Sit) (Down Girl and Sit)

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Down Girl the dog wasn't a fan of cats for sure. Here Kitty Kitty was a torturous critter who sometimes stuck to trees like a squirrel and sometimes even exploded (watch out!). What Down Girl really liked was Rruff, her master, and her best friend Sit. Hush, the dog down the street, wasn't all that bad either. Down Girl and Sit weren't getting much attention by being good so they decided that being bad to the bone just might do the trick and Hush was just the dog to hand out some advice!

She tried "snatch and run," but the stone elf didn't move and Rruff didn't really seem to notice when she grabbed that pinecone. This was almost as bad as when Rruff took her lovely, stinky blanket, threw it in the wash and ruined it! At any rate, it was a sad state of affairs when her master didn't seem to notice her antics, but then when Down and Sit were trying to be good there was trouble big time. They were going to obedience school! Down Girl thought, "it is very, very hard to train a human. But sometimes, just sometimes, they can surprise you." Would Down Girl, Sit and Hush succeed in their mission? You'll have to read the book to find out!

When I relayed or read portions of this book to friends they just laughed and laughed at the antics of Down Girl and Sit (Hush too). This easy to read chapter book is a tickle bone toucher will amuse the whole family . . . grownups can snatch and read the book after bedtime. Had Marley the dog lived in the same neighborhood there would be big time fun to be had for all. Now he would be just the guy to show Down, Sit and Hush the ins and outs of obedience school!

This series of books is great. I teach 2nd grade and my students love these books. They beg me to read these to them. Very funny but will especially enjoy if you are a dog lover!

Here's an early reader book that is laugh out loud funny. Bad to the Bone is the perfect book for the emerging reader who is ready to move beyond the 32-page picture book format. It has short, easy-to-read chapters, illustrations on every page and a snappy dialogue which makes reading it a breeze.

Bad to the Bone is written in first person from the viewpoint of a dog named Down Girl. (She thinks Down Girl is her name because that is what she hears her owner saying to her all the time.) Down Girl is a self-proclaimed cat hater who is always trying to train her human Rruff. When he doesn't give her the attention she thinks she deserves, she and her friend Sit decide to be "bad to the bone." Unfortunately, this only gets them into more trouble, resulting in the two dogs going to a dog training class. Only in Down Girl's mind, it's a class to teach their masters how to behave. What follows is a hilarious scene with the owners shouting out orders to the dogs, which makes the dogs think they've forgotten their actual names. As Down Girl notes at one point "Sit was a very popular name that day." Kids will find this scene of confused identity very funny, and may want to read it over and over again.

Young readers are naturally drawn to books about animals, and will enjoy reading a story told from a dog's point of view. Bad to the Bone is the third book in the "Down Girl and Sit" series, and even the most reluctant reader will have a hard to resisting the sly humor.

I have third graders reading this series and they LOVE it! One student said she was laughing so hard her mother came upstairs to see what was wrong....

For the kids that like to read, this was a good find and the books do not stay on the shelf. For my reluctant readers, boys and girls, this was an even better find. The books are not too long so they can get that sense of accomplishment and, by making them laugh, it keeps them interested!. A couple of them have dropped by to tell me about their favorite part - love when my students talk about the books they are reading.

Having read the other 2 books by Ms. Nolan to my 2nd graders, this book was eagerly anticipated. We loved it!

Kids ages 6-9 will appreciate BAD TO THE BONE, the story of one Down Girl and Sit who work hard at training their masters. There are so many lessons about keeping pets that their owners need to learn: how can two dogs train them adequately when they won't go to Obedience School? A fine story evolves, from a very different perspective.

We liked this book even more than the second. From ages 6 to 78, we all continued to love this series. Sue p