Perfectly Martha

by Susan Meddaugh

Overview

When Otis Weaselgraft opens his Perfect Pup Institute, promising to train even the most drooling, barking, scratching, squirrel-chasing dog to be perfectly obedient in three easy steps, Martha smells a rat. There’s something very strange about the Perfect Pup graduates, and Martha is determined to find out what it is!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780547531083
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	11/12/2013
Series:	Martha Speaks Series
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	AD490L (what's this?)
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Susan Meddaugh worked at a publishing company for ten years, first as a designer, then art editor, and finally as art director before striking out on her own as a freelance illustrator and creator of children's books. Susan has written and illustrated many popular books for children, including Martha Speaks, which was chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book for 1992. Her Martha Speaks book series was adapted into an award-winning PBS Kids TV show. She lives in Sherborn, Massachusetts.

Editorial Reviews

Martha, the dog who took alphabet soup to new heights, smells a rat when the dogs in her neighborhood start behaving too obediently after a course with Otis Weaselgraft's Perfect Pup Institute. They sit, they roll over, they lie down on command, which runs counter to Martha's understanding of the dog brain: big sleep, eat, and play lobes, with a minor lobe, about the size of a dust mote, tuned to obedience (nicely illustrated by Meddaugh's declarative art). Martha learns the trick to the professor's system, a brain-blocking microchip inserted into the dog's collar: "Lasts about a month," admits Weaselgraft when Martha turns the tables on him, "just long enough to take your money and move to the next state." Martha is the perfect mutt to raise the slogan "Question Authority" to an art form: really, if you're not drinking from the toilet or scattering trash, are you being true to your inner dog? (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews