The Poky Little Puppy (Little Golden Treasures) [Board book]

Janette Sebring Lowrey (Author), Gustaf Tenggren (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 9, 2007 | Age Level: 3 and up | Series: Little Golden Treasures

One of the original 12 Little Golden Books, The Poky Little Puppy has sold nearly 15 million copies since 1942, making it one of the most popular children’s books of all time. Now this curious little puppy is ready to win the hearts and minds of a new generation of kids.


From the Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

One of the original 12 Little Golden Books, The Poky Little Puppy has sold nearly 15 million copies since 1942, making it one of the most popular children?s books of all time. Now this curious little puppy is ready to win the hearts and minds of a new generation of kids. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Janette Sebring Lowrey lived in Texas and wrote young adult novels for Harper in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as a few other Little Golden Books.

Gustaf Tenggren, who immigrated to the U.S. from Sweden in 1920, created other famous Little Golden Book characters such as the Saggy Baggy Elephant and Tawny Scrawny Lion. Before coming to Golden Books, he worked for the Disney studio, providing concept artwork for various characters and scenes in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio. He died in 1970.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Board book: 26 pages
• Publisher: Golden Books (January 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375839259
• ISBN-13: 978-0375839252
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.6 x 6.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (78 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book!, June 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Poky Little Puppy (A Little Golden Storybook) (Hardcover)

This is the sweetest little book. I read it when I was a little girl, and now I am going to buy it for my soon-to-be-born baby. I have always thought of the poky little puppy as a hero for the ones who stop to smell the roses.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It may not be a Caldecott Winner..., November 16, 2004

By 

Jena (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Poky Little Puppy (A Little Golden Book Classic) (Hardcover)

...but the Poky Little Puppy is beloved by children of every generation. Early this summer I saw "Poky Little Puppy" t-shirts for adults being sold at a popular national retail chain near NYU. A few weeks later I still couldn't stop thinking about it, so I went back to buy one. They were all sold out. The store manager (who also was in his 30s) told me that all of their stores were sold out, both retail and online. People kept coming in asking if there was a wait list. I asked him if they were all college students, but he surprised me by saying that there were a fair number of adults. We started talking about our favorite books as children, and both had a good laugh over the fact that we'd loved the Poky Little Puppy as much as any of the classics by Sendak or Silverstein, but that as adults, we'd become blind adherents to the ratings, erroneously assuming that the Poky Little Puppy wasn't "real" children's literature because it won no awards or praise from the critics. As I was walking out, I turned and asked him if he remembered the book's refrain whenever the puppies rolled down the hill. He grinned and, in unison, we both said: "And down they went to see, roly-poly, pell-mell, tumble-bumble, till they came to the green grass; and there they stopped short." Needless to say, this book now has a place on the bookshelf of every child in my family--and they all love it just as much as I did.

43 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Addresses an important issue, March 10, 2003

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Ian David Golder (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Poky Little Puppy (Big Little Golden Book) (Hardcover)

This was the first children's book to write honestly about the issue of pokyness. The subject is introduced in a gentle manner so as not to unduly embarrass a young listener who is struggling with pokyness. As someone else put it, "the puppy is the child who has failed to progress beyond the mirror-stage, surely." I couldn't agree more, or recommend this more highly for any parents with poky children.