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Bauer, Steven

The Strange and Wonderful Tale of Robert McDoodle: The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Dog

32 pp. | Simon | September, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-689-80619-1 $$16.00
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Brad Sneed. Convinced that dogs have it better than boys, Robert McDoodle runs away and enrolls in a canine school, where he discovers that being a dog isn't as easy as he thought. Though some of the rhymes are forced, the rather predictable story has its funny moments. Sneed uses a variety of interesting perspectives and takes advantage of the humor in the boy-imitates-dog situation.
Reviewer: Martha Sibert

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