Dogger

My daughter loves this book!!!! She has 6 children of her own and loves the message in this book.

I have given over 15 copies of Dogger to friends and family when they have an arrival of a second child. Every one of them...every.one.of.them has loved it and weeks/months/years later, I still get glowing feedback on this book.The way the older child (Bella) helps out her little brother (Dave) when he looses Dogger makes me and anyone I've ever given the story to sniffle at the beauty and kindness of text and illustrations.Face it, when you were little and you miss placed your favorite toy/lovey, you basically went to DEFCON 5 alert status and nothing was right until your lovey was found. Now as a parent, you know if your child loses their lovey, nothing in your house will be settled until it is found and you would do anything ( beg, bribe and possibly liquidate your IRA to make your child happy (and sleep through the night) again. Bella is every mother's heroine. She teaches the selfless act of helping and giving better than I ever could.This book is getting harder to find, so buy it right now to help keep it in print. I need more copies for the next round of friends having children.

I love Shirley Hughes, her illustrations are realistic and detailed enough to allow plenty to pore over. But the story is what shines in this book. David loses his "dogger" and Bella, his sister, helps him get it back. Very few children books model the kind, caring side of a sibling relationship. This one shows kids how a good family can help each other out. I, too, get a tear in my eye every time I read it and my children ask for it again and again. It is in no way sappy or sentimental, it simply rings true. You will not go wrong with this book, and if you have more than one child--it's a must!

I read dogger to my friend's children many years ago. To this day it remains a firm favourite with me, I even bought a copy for my nephew before he was born ! The pictures are bright and colourful, the text easy for the children to follow but most of all it is fun to read. Dogger is tops in my opinion, and I have to confess I read it myself whenever I am feeling down ! Shirley Hughes puts the child back in me and for that I thank her most heartedly.

This book tells about a little boy, Doug, who loses his favorite stuffed animal, Dogger. The whole family helps him search for it. I really like the way the book reflects the caring way the family members in the book treat each other. My almost 3-year old daughter loves this book!

Just as the story's Dave asks, "Where's Dogger?" so does my son. We have both fallen in love with this story of a small boy who loses his beloved stuffed Dogger, only to find him sitting on a "For Sale" table at a carnival. But Dave doesn't have enough money to buy him, so he goes to find Mom or Dad, or big sister Bella. He and Bella return only to discover that Dogger has been bought by another little girl, who won't give him up. Dave cries. The little girl cries. My son almost cries. Can Bella help? Read the book and see why, after repeatedly checking this one out from the library, we had to buy a copy of our own.