cover image Bad Dog!

Bad Dog!

Ned DeLaney. William Morrow & Company, $12.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-688-06595-9

Bad Dog is one big troublemaker. When he notices that his master isn't around the house, Bad Dog searches for him, creating chaos wherever he goes. On a prowl through the local elementary school, this canine erases the teacher's lesson, makes pawprints on the kids' posterstet singular and slobbers on the fishbowl. His greatest act of devastation, however, occurs at the Natural History Museum, where he decides to nibble on a dinosaur's tail bone and brings the whole structure crashing down on himself. Delaney's colorful illustrations depict a lovable, clumsy dog and a series of whimsically conceived humans. This is just the sort of goofy good fun that beginning readers love. Ages 4-7. (September)