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springerme's review against another edition
4.0
I love the idea of reading to your pet! never would have thought of that.
wordnerd153's review against another edition
5.0
This may be my favorite Dog Man yet. Funny and lots of great messages.
mbrevesz's review against another edition
5.0
I wish everyone knew how special these books are, but the kids who read them do, and I guess that is what is most important.
danieljoseph's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
rwims's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Love these dogman books each one is so funny. The story focuses on petey, his clone and the fight of good against evil. Loosely based around Lord of the flies. Brilliant tale of why to be good. Little petey rocks.
jennmarshall27's review against another edition
5.0
Another preview copy from my conference. I cannot wait for this to come out. Another hilarious Dog Man!!
mandarchy's review against another edition
4.0
A common misconception among young readers is that this is a spoof on Lord of the Rings. They have never heard of Lord of the Flies. When I book talk graphic novels I teach my students phrases to take back to who ever tells them that graphic novels are a waste of time. I say, "repeat after me. Research supports these claims: Graphic novels are full of rich vocabulary. They build and support background knowledge. Students will be more engaged in what they are reading if they self selected the text". It's fun to watch my students as they repeat these claims. They start to smile as I help them build their argument for just letting them read. Now back to Dog Man Lord of the Fleas. I teach my students how to build their background knowledge and I use this book as an example. A lot of them connect it to Lord of the Rings. I wont tell them the title of the book it is connected to. Instead I warn them that it might be required reading in high school and after reading this they will have background knowledge to support their comprehension of the high school text. Some might go out and seek the mysterious text and read it earlier... whoops!
larrys's review against another edition
2.0
My ten year old would give this five out of five stars but this isn't her account.
I can see the appeal, though to me this is like turning on ABC 3 to a random show and having it babble at you. In full disclosure, I thought the first Dogman was pretty good. But this one is structured around the following running gag, which I guess we're to interpret as metafiction, since the entire story is bookended by the boys from Captain Underpants writing the comic:
What is it with you and POOP?
Look, you can't just tell the same joke... over and over... and expect it to still be funny!
You can't do the same things... again and again... and expect to get a laugh! Ya gotta avoid repetition...shun redundancy...eschew reiteration... resist recapitulation... and also, stop telling the same joke over and over!
[...]
Why do you keep telling these stupid jokes?
Because it's distracting.
Distracting from what?
[...]
Ya just gotta switch expectations!
The guy who founded the Onion divides humour into 11 categories and this would be a (fairly rare) example of metahumour -- humour about humour. It relies on quite a high level of sophistication from the reader, and I guess this is why Dogman is said to appeal to both kids and adults. I guess I'm a little skeptical. I feel like Pilkey ran out of 'actual' (diegetic -- non-meta) jokes. So we get a lot of non sequitur jokes from the young cat (which parents will relate to) and a lot of poop on the head jokes.
It is what it is.
Regarding the power of reading: The carrot of a preorder got my kid to memorise her three and four times tables.
Addendum, because this annoys me more than I can say.
Dav Pilkey's biography at the end says that 'as a child he suffered from ADHD'. My ADHD daughter was delighted to learn Dav Pilkey is a fellow ADHD creative. I'm less keen to teach her that ADHD equates to 'suffering'. Pilkey did suffer, but not from his ADHD -- from a school culture which didn't recognise the neurodifference and cater for it.
Also, Dav Pilkey is still and always be made of the ADHD phenotype. The phrasing used in his bio perpetuates the myth that kids grow out of ADHD, like they get a box on their eighteenth birthday and inside they get a neurotypical brain.
I can see the appeal, though to me this is like turning on ABC 3 to a random show and having it babble at you. In full disclosure, I thought the first Dogman was pretty good. But this one is structured around the following running gag, which I guess we're to interpret as metafiction, since the entire story is bookended by the boys from Captain Underpants writing the comic:
What is it with you and POOP?
Look, you can't just tell the same joke... over and over... and expect it to still be funny!
You can't do the same things... again and again... and expect to get a laugh! Ya gotta avoid repetition...shun redundancy...eschew reiteration... resist recapitulation... and also, stop telling the same joke over and over!
[...]
Why do you keep telling these stupid jokes?
Because it's distracting.
Distracting from what?
[...]
Ya just gotta switch expectations!
The guy who founded the Onion divides humour into 11 categories and this would be a (fairly rare) example of metahumour -- humour about humour. It relies on quite a high level of sophistication from the reader, and I guess this is why Dogman is said to appeal to both kids and adults. I guess I'm a little skeptical. I feel like Pilkey ran out of 'actual' (diegetic -- non-meta) jokes. So we get a lot of non sequitur jokes from the young cat (which parents will relate to) and a lot of poop on the head jokes.
It is what it is.
Regarding the power of reading: The carrot of a preorder got my kid to memorise her three and four times tables.
Addendum, because this annoys me more than I can say.
Dav Pilkey's biography at the end says that 'as a child he suffered from ADHD'. My ADHD daughter was delighted to learn Dav Pilkey is a fellow ADHD creative. I'm less keen to teach her that ADHD equates to 'suffering'. Pilkey did suffer, but not from his ADHD -- from a school culture which didn't recognise the neurodifference and cater for it.
Also, Dav Pilkey is still and always be made of the ADHD phenotype. The phrasing used in his bio perpetuates the myth that kids grow out of ADHD, like they get a box on their eighteenth birthday and inside they get a neurotypical brain.
kriziaannacastro's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0