Chowder
Peter Brown, Author . Little, Brown $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-01180-8
Chowder, an English bulldog, baffles everybody with his precocious behavior. He uses the toilet and the computer, and while regular dogs chew bones, he excavates a dinosaur skeleton. His doting owners, Madge and Bernie Wubbington, tote him in a baby backpack; they "liked to think of him as quirky, but most people thought he was just plain weird." One day, lonesome Chowder spies a billboard for a megamart's new petting zoo: "All the neighborhood dogs had said Chowder belonged in a zoo, and he wondered if they were right." In bizarre events involving the supermarket and a kickball game, Chowder befriends the Critter Corral's captive pony, cow, sheep and others. With mixed results, Brown (
Reviewed on: 09/04/2006
Release date: 09/01/2006
Genre: Children's
Paperback - 32 pages - 9780316200882
Hardcover - 32 pages - 9780316011808
Prebound-Sewn - 32 pages - 9780606261463