Hot Dog [Hardcover]

Evelyn Clarke Mott (Author)

Book Description

Hilarious full-color photographs of dogs combine with vivid computer-generated backdrops and a simple rhyming text to provide small children with a humorous look inside the canine world.

--This text refers to the Board book edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Pets with personality-plus fill these photo-illustrated board books. Beginning with the orange tabby sporting shades on the cover of Cool Cat and the panting bulldog cover model on Hot Dog, both volumes offer a portrait gallery of playful posers captioned with a short, rhyming text. For the sequence "Witty cat. Pretty cat. Always loving kitty. Cat," for example, "Witty" features a Siamese squinting through a pair of plastic Groucho Marx glasses cum rubber nose; "Pretty" shows a snow-white, long-haired kitty wearing a pink bow; and "Always loving" presents a blue-eyed girl snuggling with an equally blue-eyed feline. A "country dog" poodle boasts a horned, black-and-white felt cow hat, while its more sophisticated sibling, the "city dog," stretches out on a sidewalk, gazing impassively from beneath a perfectly styled wig. Though not as chic as William Wegman's weimaraners, these merry mannequins will win plenty of hearts. Ages 6 mos.-4 yrs.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Board book edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing (July 12, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517272032
• ISBN-13: 978-0517272039
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,278,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chowin', swimmin' droolin' coolin'; Hot Dog dogs are cool!, August 11, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Hot Dog (Board Books) (Board book)

Stuck on a desert island with your kids? You better have Hot Dog with you! ³Hot dog, silly dog, chowing down some chili dog.² Got the beat? Mott keeps it going with a simple, fun, poetic pace; choosing words and pictures to delight eyes and ears. You and your children will see pictures of dogs with slobbering lips, bespectacled eyes, clownish headgear, as well as just plain dogs, joyous to be alive and acting silly. Each page is double fun because the computer-enhanced backgrounds are ,well, ZANY! Actually one half of a wild duo of books, Hot Dog is the companion to Cool Cat, Mott¹s other whimsical photographic salute to animal silliness and saintliness. The book ends (as does Cool Cat) with a loving, warm glance at the people/doggie (or people/kitty) relationship.