Stick Dog Wants A Hot Dog (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Stick Dog Wants a Hot Dog is the second book in the Stick Dog series; however, there is a great intro chapter to explain everything if you didn't read the first book. This is a simple story with extremely simple drawings. Stick Dog and his four dog friends, Karen, Mutt, Poo-Poo, and Stripes, are introduced to frankfurters and decide that they must get some because they are so hungry. Stick Dog, by far, is the most rational of the group, and he often has to reign in his friends' crazy ideas about how to get those frankfurters. Not to mention there are some raccoons - The Frankfurter Assault Squadron - who are also trying to get some of those delicious frankfurters. Will Stick Dog and his friends be successful?I really enjoyed this story. This is a great book for reluctant or struggling readers because it's an easy read, but it includes a lot of inferencing and higher vocabulary that kids can understand through context clues or sometimes just direct explanation. It's funny - very funny. It also is a great transition to chapter books for struggling readers because it's a big book that doesn't seem like it's a big book when you start reading it but still has a decent amount of reading to it. This is a series that could help kids turn the corner about reading - I highly recommend. In this sequel to Stick Dog, our eponymous hero and his friends are back, this time in search of frankfurters rather than hamburgers. Finding a hot dog vendor in the park, the friends come up with various schemes to distract Pete from his cart so that they can grab hot dogs and run. These plans include making Pete jealous by eating lots of hamburgers in front of him, flying a helicopter over the cart, and having Karen, a dachshund, pretend to be a giant hot dog. The group also runs into a band of wily racoons on the same mission. When Karen is accidentally put into a basket of laundry and taken inside, the friends change their mission to freeing her from the clutches of a man who does a bizarre mating dance and then runs inside his own house. Luckily, Karen is able to jump from a window and the group is able to focus on the matter at hand: obtaining hot dogs. The real cliff hanger: will they succeed?Strengths: This was slightly more amusing than the first book; I laughed several times. The racoons were rather amusing. I wish that people who are buying books for second graders would buy this series instead of the Wimpy Kid books, since those really do cover more middle school issues.Weaknesses: I read this on the same night I read the 5th Zombie Chasers book and a ghost written sports book. I am by no means a literature snob, but the convergence of the three of these made me weep for humanity just a tiny bit. Children will love these. There's something about adding poorly drawn pictures to anything that makes some children want to read a book. Seriously. Mr. Watson should look into illustrating Huckleberry Finn, The Scarlet Letter, or some of the other musty chestnuts that literature teachers seem to feel a need to cram in their entirety down poor high schoolers' throats. (N.B. To Ms. S-K: Picky Reader has NOT been complaining. The opinions expressed are purely my own. )There's got to be a middle ground, people. We need to find it between To Kill a Mockingbird and Stan and the Toilet Monster.
What do You think about Stick Dog Wants A Hot Dog (2013)?
super funny when he is finding the frankfurters. I think it was funny when they look like a ghost!
—kyliebell
Che's recommendationIt's about 5 dogs that are very very hungry. When the 5 dogs try
—danielradcliffe
Review coming soon once posted at its original destination.
—kiara
A simply silly story that my nine year old enjoyed.
—Emily
