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Summary: Favorite-est Story!
Review: I loved this book when I was a kid and now my children are enjoying it themselves. The art is wonderful for young children and the rhyme holds their attention well. A good bed time story. "I was the happiest dad who ever turned, to a book from which to read he'd learned. My children are enjoying too, a beloved tale that when young I knew. My mother sat me on her knee so the Diggingest Dog I could see. And now I share the same with three."
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Summary: Favorite-est Story
Review: I loved this book when I was a kid and now my children are enjoying it themselves. The art is wonderful for young children and the rhyme holds their attention well. A good bed time story. "I was the happiest dad who ever turned, to a book from which to read he'd learned. My children are enjoying too, a beloved tale that when young I knew. My mother sat me on her knee so the Diggingest Dog I could see. And now I share the same with three."
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Summary: Favorite-est Story
Review: I loved this book when I was a kid and now my children are enjoying it themselves. The art is wonderful for young children and the rhyme holds their attention well. A good bed time story. "I was the happiest dad who ever turned, to a book from which to read he'd learned. My children are enjoying too, a beloved tale that when young I knew. My mother sat me on her knee so the Diggingest Dog I could see. And now I share the same with three."
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Summary: Digging-est Dog
Review: I remember this from when I was little (born in 66) and loved it. I had to buy it for my daughter and now it's her favorite too. He learns from scratch how to dig and then gets a little too enthusiastic. Once he realizes his damage, he digs it all back in place. Also bought- The Five Chinese Brothers. One of my other childhood favorites. Though seemingly a little out of sorts with political correctness, it's a good story about quintuplets who get a wrongly accused brother out of trouble by using each of their great talents. One can hold his breath for a long time, one can stretch his legs extra long, etc.
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Summary: Learning made fun!
Review: My little brother(now 28 years old)received this book from our Grand-parents. It has now been graciously passed on to my children. My three boys have grown to love this book. The rhyming is fun and they can relate to the mischief. They've learned speech/language skills from the rhyme and rhythm, and empathy from the relationship between the characters. Sammy shows his dog-Duke a lot of compassion. In the end "Duke" takes responsibility for his own actions. It's one of the best written, most well-illustrated books I've read to my kids. I plan to buy a copy for our school and one for each of my sons. I'm very thankful it's still in print and I doubt I will ever grow tired of reading it!
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Summary: 4.5 stars
Review: Poor Duke the dog had spent his whole life on 'a bare, hard floor of stone', until the day Sammy Brown decided to buy him and take him home to his farm. Duke was overjoyed to be out of the pet store, or at least he was until Sammy called the neighbor hood dogs over and they started digging. Since Duke had spent all of his life on a stone floor, he couldn't dig, and when the dogs disowned him felt as if he had let both himself and Sammy down. The next day Duke tried again, and he managed to dig! He was so excited that he started digging, and digging, and digging. "[He] dug up the fence. [He] dug up the gates. [He] dug up the garden of Mrs. Thwaites." Duke only stopped digging when he found Sammy looking down on him. Sammy wasn't pleased, and told Duke that he was going back to the pet store. To escape Sammy and the other dogs (who had come with Sammy) Duke dug straight down, creating a well, from which the dogs helped to rescue him. As soon as he was out of the well, he ran back and fixed the mess he made in the town. Now Duke still lives with Sammy, and he does the plowing. One really neat thing about this book is how the pictures express the mood of the page. The pet-store is a boring brownish color and Sammy's place is bright and cheerful, except when the dogs disown Duke-then it is all slightly bluish. Duke's face is also really expressive. The story is told in rhyme, and flows well. It is also told from Duke's perspective. If possible, I would give this book four and a half stars because while the story is cute, the book just seems to lack a charm that some other books have in abundance. Loggie-log-log-log
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Summary: 4.5 stars
Review: Poor Duke the dog had spent his whole life on `a bare, hard floor of stone', until the day Sammy Brown decided to buy him and take him home to his farm. Duke was overjoyed to be out of the pet store, or at least he was until Sammy called the neighbor hood dogs over and they started digging. Since Duke had spent all of his life on a stone floor, he couldn't dig, and when the dogs disowned him felt as if he had let both himself and Sammy down. The next day Duke tried again, and he managed to dig! He was so excited that he started digging, and digging, and digging. "[He] dug up the fence. [He] dug up the gates. [He] dug up the garden of Mrs. Thwaites." Duke only stopped digging when he found Sammy looking down on him. Sammy wasn't pleased, and told Duke that he was going back to the pet store. To escape Sammy and the other dogs (who had come with Sammy) Duke dug straight down, creating a well, from which the dogs helped to rescue him. As soon as he was out of the well, he ran back and fixed the mess he made in the town. Now Duke still lives with Sammy, and he does the plowing. One really neat thing about this book is how the pictures express the mood of the page. The pet-store is a boring brownish color and Sammy's place is bright and cheerful, except when the dogs disown Duke-then it is all slightly bluish. Duke's face is also really expressive. The story is told in rhyme, and flows well. It is also told from Duke's perspective. If possible, I would give this book four and a half stars because while the story is cute, the book just seems to lack a charm that some other books have in abundance. Loggie-log-log-log
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Summary: Cute picture belies content of book
Review: The moral of this story is that if you make a mistake, you will be punished. The dog in the story is adopted from the pound by a seemingly sweet boy. When the dog can't dig like the other dogs, the boy is sad so the dog learns to dig. He digs and digs and digs up things he shouldn't. The boy is mad and tells the dog he's taking him back to the pound. It isn't until the dog digs down and almost drowns, then fills in the ditches that he's dug that the boy is happy and decides to keep the dog. The way in which the dog is threatened is awful. Not a story for young kids.
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Summary: Franz Kafka meets Dr. Seuss
Review: There are many reasons why I believe this book, "The Digging-est Dog" is a great book for kids. One of the reasons are because of the type of words it uses. This book uses wonderful words kids would be able to understand. When I was a kid I just loved this book because of the adventure in it. That is another reason why "The Digging-est Dog" is a good book. It tells a story of a dog digging to many places and it goes to the most unusual places a normal dog would dig too. This book is a great book for kids and I would recomend it to anyone. When I was litte I would cry when it came to the part when the little boy didnt want the dog anymore because it dug to, to many places and got in trouble so the master of the dog sent him back to the store and the dog was depressed and unhappy all day long. In this story the kid was happy that the dog tried to dig because before he didn't know how and none of the other dogs wanted to play with him because he couldn't dig. This book shows a good example because the dog never gave up and tried his hardest to reach his goal and achieved it.
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Summary: A True Classic
Review: Unlike many of the other reviewers, I did not have this book when I was a kid, but I can recognize a true classic when I read one. Its so much better than the vast majority of the books coming out today. My four year old loves this book and it has been instrumental in giving him a great step ahead in learning to read. I think that's because it has the right blend of plot and humour, vocabulary and rhythm, to engross a child, and just as importantly, to keep up adults' interest so they will not be sick of it after reading it the umpteenth time. Similar to the Seuss books, but actually better quality.
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