(Part 2) Best children dog books according to redditors

My god... I had to look. Also the comments are just great...
http://www.amazon.com/Boys-Are-Dogs-Leslie-Margolis/dp/1599902214
Why don't parents care about how their sons are affected by the girl power culture infesting childhood?
"welcome to the world you worthless animal, don't go growing up to be problem for society now."

This might be more your speed.

It's too late - they're already there. Ever been to a school lately with all the feminist claptrap? You have anti-male gems like this openly sold by Scholastic and boys now falling behind in STEM and University enrollment overall.

If the MRM would get its shit together and start promoting a policy of true equality, citingreal statistics on why men suffer more in society overall, and calling out the feminists, then this feminist bullshit might not spread.

My son has this book - the dog's name is (now) Baltic

We can all rate his book 1 star if its on amazon.

Edit: just got home from work, here are links to his books on amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Dubs-Goes-Washington-Discovers-Greatness/dp/1439280266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325201491&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=dick+morris&x=0&y=0

I dont know how true tthis is but here is some dirt from someone who reviewed his book "Dick Morris who was kicked out of the Clinton administration for allowing a prostitute he paid for at the time listen in on the converstations he was having with the President."

I would definitely tell him. The more you can weave it into your daily conversation and get him used to the idea, the less of a shock it will be when he actually moves. I'd start by telling him something like, "Guess what? We are getting something really special in a few months. We're getting a whole new house just for Mommy, Daddy, and you! You'll have your own room you can decorate however you want! [or whatever other exciting detail he would be interested in] We won't live with grandpa and grandpa anymore, but we'll still come visit them here, and they will come visit us at our new house!"

You might also read him some books about moving, such as Moving House, Boomer's Big Day or Big Erine's New Home. You want to familiarize him with what's going to happen, give him the chance to ask all his questions, and reassure him that while some things will change, the important things (like being with you, having all his familiar stuff, seeing his grandparents regularly) won't change.

These are the books I've kept from my sizeable home library on the off chance I have grandchildren. They are in no particular order.

• Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy -- Animals inspect a snowman, eat his nose and mouth, and then kids in hiding who watched it all put more food on the snowman for the animals, having planned for the animals to dine all along.
  
  
• Frosty the Snowman -- Adapted from the song by Annie North Bedford. There are versions that use the artwork from the animated TV special, but I prefer this one with vintage illustrations by Corinne Malvern.
  
  
• The Night before Christmas by Clement Moore. It's in the public domain, so there are many versions. Choose the artwork you like.
  
  
• Santa Cows -- A modern family is hanging out at home eating pizza. They hear the sound of hooves on their roof, and they spend the night with a herd of cows in their home. It ends with the family playing baseball in the snow with the cows. The text is reminiscent of The Night Before Christmas.
  
  
• The Polar Express -- It's a charming, peaceful book. It's nothing like the movie. The film made my kids cry... terror scene, calm scene, terror scene, calm scene, repeat.
  
  
• Countdown to Christmas -- This is a must if you are a Bill Peet fan, a prolific children's picture book author from yesteryear.
  
  
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
  
  
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer -- This is a reprint of the original from 1939 sold in Montgomery Ward stores. The author, Robert L. May, was an advertising copyrighter for Montgomery Ward.
  
  
• There are two Rudolph sequels. From Wikipedia: "May wrote two sequels to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The first is mostly in prose (except that Rudolph speaks in anapestic tetrameter), written in 1947 but only published posthumously as Rudolph's Second Christmas (1992), and subsequently with the title Rudolph to the Rescue (2006). The second sequel is entirely in anapaestic tetrameter like the original: Rudolph Shines Again (1954)."
  
  
• Olive the Other Reindeer -- This is a popular story about a dog who hears the song lyric "all of the other reindeer," decides he must be a reindeer, and heads to the North Pole.
  
  
• Santa has a Busy Night -- This is an unremarkable telling of the nuts and bolts of Santa Claus, but I wanted one book that told the basic myth in plainer detail than The Night Before Christmas. It mentions Santa travels to places where it's summer, and that kids don't get everything they want because he can't carry everything in his pack, but doesn't explain how he enters homes that have pipe chimneys or no chimney at all.
  
  
• Robot Santa -- This is a sequel to Santa's Twin, written by Dean Koontz, a horror fiction writer. I don't own the first book and didn't realize it was a sequel until now. It's for a kid age 5+, not scary, but maybe too developed a story for a young child. A much older child, or maybe just parents, might enjoy the Die Hard and Home Alone picture books.
  
  
• Night Tree -- A family's annual Christmas tradition is to walk into the forest and cut down a tree find the same live tree from last year and decorate it with food for the forest animals to eat. It's by prolific author Eve Bunting. I really enjoyed this story.
  
  
• Auntie Claus -- I can't vouch for this book as I have little memory of it, but my wife is upset to learn while I was compiling this list that I apparently culled it from our collection.
  
  For a Nutcracker book, visit a good bookstore. You'll want to find the right balance between the heft of the words and the style of artwork. Some Nutcracker books have gorgeous illustrations while others are cartoonish.
  
  A lot of my recommendations are only available for sale as used copies because my collection was built from attending garage sales and scouring thrift stores every week for more than a decade. You can use AbeBooks to search for books in used bookstores across America.

A book (or a few books) are nice. You could go with some traditional story books, or learning books. My daughter loves looking at books. These are some of her favorites:

http://www.amazon.com/First-100-Words-Bright-Baby/dp/B000F7BPCU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312305286&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Book-casebound-Board-Books/dp/0312511078/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312305354&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Biscuit-Alyssa-Satin-Capucilli/dp/0064442128/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312305382&sr=1-7
(there are lots of "Biscuit" books, this is just one)

Another suggesting is LeapFrog's Violet. It's a toy (I know your bro said no toys), but I have to tell you that my daughter LOVES Violet. You can program her to know your niece's name and say it and sing songs with her name in it. You can change the songs that are played, Violet's "favorite" colors, foods, etc to match with whatever your niece is into at the time and so much more. My daughter (22 months) goes through phases where she's literally attached at the hip with the thing. Here's a link: http://www.amazon.com/LeapFrog-19157-My-Pal-Violet/dp/B001W35I8I/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312305595&sr=1-1

Another idea is to get one of those Hallmark recordable books and record yourself reading a story to your niece. I did that for my daughter's 1st birthday (there's a little dedication section too) and my husband did one for Christmas. Here's another link: http://www.hallmark.com/online/in-stores/storybooks/recordable-storybooks/

All of these things are $30 and under, so hopefully you can find something to fit your budget. :)

Floonet,
It might be too late by the time you find it, but there is a book I would like to recommend. It is a children's book (possibly a bit below her gradelevel, but this is a book for reading, not for school so it doesn't matter.) It is called The Tenth Good Thing About Barney and it is about another child who has lost a pet. Amazon has it http://www.amazon.com/Tenth-Thing-About-Barney-about/dp/0689206887 and you can probably find it in many local bookstores.

Now, Floonet's Niece,
Hey, I just want to tell you I had a cat once, and the cat was hit by a car, and I cried. If you feel like you need to cry, that is okay. It is sad, and people grieve when a loved one dies. I think you already know that things will get better. But it is hard to FEEL like it is going to get better. Now is an okay time to be sad. Now is an okay time to be upset, just remember that there WILL be a time to be happy again. Remember this even when you cry.

If you feel happy for a little bit let yourself. Don't feel guilty if you are happy for a few minutes, even after such a loss. Don't feel guilty if you feel happy without your parents there. Let yourself feel happy when you need to, just as you let yourself feel sad when you need to.

All things in their time, and a time for all things.
Love (of the impersonal universal kind)
Kg4wwn

My daughter has a book about this happening In Poland. Baltic the Dog

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0399256660?pc_redir=1408082627&robot_redir=1

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I have been wanting to read it for a while!

:) thanks for the contest!

I just found out that this guy has a new children's book out on Amazon.

Amazing, considering his history of prostitution and illegitimate children.

Where the Sidewalk Ends was one of my favorite books as a kid. I wish I still had it, I've never been able to find it for my kids. My mom sold my copy on a yard sale once when I was a teenager because I'd apparently outgrown it :( It's on my kids' Book Wishes wishlist!

Some of my kids' favorites are Frog and Toad, Clifford the Big Red Dog and anything by Dr. Suess :)

Not sure if reference...

https://www.amazon.ca/Olive-Other-Reindeer-Vivian-Walsh/dp/0811818071/ref=sr_1_1/168-3940169-3982611?ie=UTF8&qid=1480650073&sr=8-1&keywords=olive+the+other+reindeer

Brown Bear is our bedtime book - J kisses all of the children when we get to that page (well it's an open mouth "ahhhhhh" slime). We tapped along to the rhythm to keep him interested when he was little and still does this :) And I like llama llama red pajama (but none of the other books in the series). What A Wonderful World is also pretty.

If you have a dog, this book is awesome: https://www.amazon.com/Color-Dog-Matthew-Van-Fleet/dp/1481449869

We just got this one for our 8 month old. Omg is it amazing! Color Dog https://www.amazon.com/dp/1481449869/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_wIw7AbEMS85D0

Officer Buckle & Gloria?

https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Buckle-Gloria-Caldecott-Medal/dp/0399226168

I would LOVE the kindle to help my son get better at his reading! This would be amazing! The book he can almost read by himself is Go Dog Go!

If your daughter is old enough to not destroy regular books, this is the one to get:

http://www.amazon.com/Clifford-Collection-Norman-Bridwell/dp/0545450136/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1407180853&sr=8-3&keywords=clifford

It was actually written by P.D. Eastman, but it was the book with which I taught myself to read. :)

Dogger by Shirley Hughes https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dogger-Shirley-Hughes/dp/1862308055

(probably not if you're not british though!)

I LOVE MY BABY! She is the light of my life, the hardest job I have ever had, but by far the most rewarding. Every time we go to the library she runs to the Clifford the big red dog doll, its huge, I wanted to get her one but they are pricey so I would like to get her the books to have for keeps, like this one. She is almost 16 months and this is such a fun age! Thanks for the contest :)

Go, Dog. Go!

If you've never read it, this is why...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Great-Dog-Bottom-Swap/dp/1842709887

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This book. I will eventually need it when I need to explain death to my daughter. It was what my father read with me when our cat died in 2nd grade.

Olive, the other Reindeer

Top of the odd children's books list is The Great Dog Bottom Swap - "The day has arrived for the Dogs' Summer Ball. It's so high class that each dog must remove their bottom before they are allowed inside the hall. But in the middle of all the frivolity something unexpected happens and the dogs have to make a hasty exit...with or without the correct bottom!"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1842709887?pc_redir=1397817935&robot_redir=1

Truly weird.

Dogger by Shirley Hughes. Even now, that book can make me cry. The illustrations are just gorgeous, and the story is so so sweet!

Made me think of this series of children's books about Boomer the dog :)

I feel like I realized that when I was about 3-4 reading a book. I think it was http://www.amazon.com/Officer-Buckle-Gloria-Caldecott-Medal/dp/0399226168

Could it be Kathy Reichs' Virals series?

https://www.amazon.com/Virals-Kathy-Reichs-ebook/dp/B00452V45Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539137412&sr=8-1&keywords=virals

Umm, here is a non-referral link.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006MHOFA6/

Early intervention therapist! No kids. But here's some toys I use regularly: geometric sorter, shape sorter, magnetic tiles, marble run, and bristle blocks.

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My two biggest recommendations for books are: Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb for learning patterns and rhyme; Go, Dog, Go for learning adjectives and directional terms.

These were really popular when I was a kid and they are first grade reading level. You have to remember that kids books are short because they are working with the attention span of the typical child that age. I loved these books and I was reading at a senior level in third grade.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dogger-Shirley-Hughes/dp/1862308055

I used to love the Dogger books when I was a child :)

Yup. As MollyBloom11 reminded me, it's by Dodie Smith.

• Is it Japser's Day?
  
• Or Saying Goodbye to Lulu?
  
• Or Murphy and Kate?

Could it be Murphy and Kate? If not, you could try looking here.

Reminds me so much of this.

You seem to struggle with basic reading comprehension. Maybe you're not quite ready for reddit, and should stick with Go Dogs Go for a while. Please leave; adults are trying to talk here.

Cruella DeVille.

Seriously, killing puppies for fashion?

EDIT: just realized it said "Readers of Redditt".... so here's a book.

http://www.amazon.com/101-Dalmatians-Puffin-story-books/dp/0140340343

Amazon Link

Lets change that 4.5/5 rating...