Sunday, November 9, 2008

Pinkerton, Behave! (Author Study: Steven Kellogg)


Pinkerton, Behave is about a little girl and her mother trying to train their Great Dane pet. The little girl takes her dog Pinkerton to the obedience school once she realizes that it is going to take a professional to train her dog. Once Pinkerton arrives at obedience the teacher tries training him to come, fetch, and attack a burglar. Although the little girl and her mother believe that being around well-trained dogs it will influence Pinkerton, the exact opposite happens when Pinkerton encourages the other dogs to not follow commands. Pinkerton fails to get trained at obedience school and although everyone thinks he isn’t capable of being a well trained dog, he proves everyone wrong when he saves them from a burglar. Overall the book is very cute, with the exception of some mildly creepy illustrations of the burglar coming into the little girl’s room. This book is another great example of the creative geniuses from Steven Kellogg.

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