James Patterson and Steven Butler’s Dog Diaries is a giggly adventure for 7 year olds, written by a rescue dog who’s just found his boy.<\/p>\n
Junior is SO pleased you’ve opened his diary that he gives you his favourite stick straight away. One end’s a bit chewed, but he insists.<\/p>\n
Not long ago he was stuck in the Hills Village Dog Shelter (or pooch prison, as he calls it). Then Mom-Lady takes him home and he meets Ruff, a skinny boy with messy hair. Ruff calls him a GOOD BOY and that’s it. Best friends for life.<\/p>\n
Home is brilliant. There’s the comfy squishy thing to nap on, a park full of his old friends from the shelter and one terrible enemy who lives in the hall cupboard. It’s the Vacuum Cleaner, of course.<\/p>\n
Then Junior spots a raccoon at the park. What follows involves a Saint Bernard, a runaway pushchair and some very wet grannies. It ends with a furious woman dangling from the swings.<\/p>\n
She’s Iona Stricker and she runs the obedience classes. Junior has to take her course or she’ll report him to the shelter. Could anything be worse for a dog who just wants to chase things? Junior writes his will and signs it “Dead Junior” (he’s absolutely fine, he’s just being dramatic).<\/p>\n
When the classes go badly, Ruff makes a deal instead. Junior has one week to win a prize at the town dog show, up against Stricker’s perfectly trained poodle, Duchess.<\/p>\n
The whole book is Junior talking straight to your reader, entry by entry through the day, with LOTS of capitals. He gets human things wonderfully wrong. When Mom-Lady mentions getting him microchipped, he’s sure he’s about to be turned into a bag of crisps!<\/p>\n
There’s a joke in there for grown-ups too. Stricker calls Ruff “Mr. Khatchadorian” and Junior thinks she’s just saying Catch-A-Doggy-Bone wrong.<\/p>\n
Expect plenty of toilet humour. Junior leaves a poop in his sister’s trainers and he’s very proud of it. He lives in America, so you’ll meet a Mom-Lady and a backyard (and American spellings). The pictures on nearly every spread make it a quick, bouncy read for a child getting going on longer books.<\/p>\n
This is where Junior’s diaries start. If he goes down well, Big Top Bonanza is in the library too. A carnival and circus set up in the dog park, and Junior can’t wait to get a look inside the big top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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