Jeez! I can’t believe I’m writing something with the title Go, Dog, Go! But Tillie convinced me and and Trixie to read this book, so here we are. I wasn’t really on board with this idea at first, but when I saw that it was a picture book for CHILDREN, and there weren’t any REAL dogs in the book, I decided maybe it wouldn’t be so bad.
Since this is a book for children, it’s sort of silly, with sayings like “The blue dog is in. The red dog is out.” Of course dogs are not red and blue, so that makes it even sillier. I wasn’t really frightened of the dogs in this book at all.
Well…except for two parts.
First, towards the end of the book, all the dogs go to bed in this HUGE bed. I’ve never seen a bed that big before! And near one end of the bed, there’s this one little dog who’s not sleeping. His eyes are wide open and…and I’m not really sure, but I think he looks…afraid. I don’t like to think of what a dog might have to be afraid of. Maybe wolves? Maybe he’s afraid if he goes to sleep the wolves will come in and get him?
That whole page is just a little creepy.
Then next, when the dogs wake up in the morning, they jump out of bed and get in their little red cars and race to this huge tree. Why? What’s going on at the tree? Well, when they all climb up the ladder, at the top of the tree there’s this big dog party!
Now, I like a party as much as anyone else, maybe even more, but seeing all those dogs having a party did not really seem like a party to me at all. If I were to have a party, I would not be inviting any dogs. This dog party reminded me of that line in The Avengers (which we all 
recently sat down and watched while The People were away for the day) when Iron Man says “I’m bringing the party to you,” and Black Widow sees the huge alien monsters coming in the sky and says, “I fail to see how this is a party.” Well, I kind of felt the same way.
I fail to see how so many dogs together in one place can be a party.
But most of the book was actually pretty fun and funny, and there was even this one bit that kept happening about a lady dog who has a different hat each time, and she keeps asking one of the other dogs if he likes her hat, and he keeps saying he doesn’t, until the very end, when she’s wearing this crazy hat with a flower pot in it, and candy canes and spiders and dog bones and fish and flags and pinwheels and all kinds of things. THEN he says he likes her hat!
This is the part of the book Tillie really liked, and she wants us to do something like this. Miss Chrissy has been buying us a lot of clothes, and she’s bought us a bunch of hats, and some of them are really cute, and some are pretty. So we’d like to show you our hats, and we’re going to call this “Do You Like My Hat?” Look for it on the side of the page, coming soon.
But in conclusion, Go, Dog, Go! was actually a pretty good book. Like I said, it’s for CHILDREN, and we can all read a lot more complicated books than this, but still, I think we all liked it. Despite the fact that it was filled with so many dogs.
