Work, Dogs, Work: A Highway Tail

by James Horvath, James Horvath (Illustrator)

Overview

Duke and his construction crew of worker dogs race to build and repair a highway from the city to the beach.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062189707
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/23/2014
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	10.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

James Horvath has worked as a designer and illustrator for more than fifteen years. In 2002 he established Jamestoons Studios (with a workforce of one) so he could focus more on his illustration. When not scratching and scribbling at his drawing table, he plays with his two young sons and wife, bangs around on the banjo, surfs, and generally has a lot of fun. A lifelong devoted cartoon fan, James Horvath lives with his family on California’s central coast. You can visit him online at www.jamestoons.com.

James Horvath has worked as a designer and illustrator for more than fifteen years. In 2002 he established Jamestoons Studios (with a workforce of one) so he could focus more on his illustration. When not scratching and scribbling at his drawing table, he plays with his two young sons and wife, bangs around on the banjo, surfs, and generally has a lot of fun. A lifelong devoted cartoon fan, James Horvath lives with his family on California’s central coast. You can visit him online at www.jamestoons.com.

Editorial Reviews

Kids who get starry-eyed over trucks, earth-moving equipment, and construction sites should go gaga over this book, which has a pack of very capable canines scampering around and digging at a construction site.” — Booklist for DIG, DOGS, DIG

“With its punchy rhymes and Hanna-Barbera panoramas, DIG, DOGS, DIG hops along with the bouncy effervescence of P.D. Eastman’s Go Dog. Go!.” — New York Times Book Review for DIG, DOGS, DIG

“Fans of GOODNIGHT, GOODNIGHT, CONSTRUCTION SITE will eagerly dig into illustrator/designer Horvath’s vehicle-centric debut, first in a planned series.” — Publishers Weekly for DIG, DOGS, DIG

“A dozen dogs and one black cat work hard to build a playground in this amusing story that will please kids who love excavators, cranes and dump trucks… The entire construction process is conveyed in an energetic manner that is both entertaining and educational.” — Kirkus Reviews for DIG, DOGS, DIG

“Youngsters who can’t get enough books with pictures of heavy equipment will be attracted to this one.” — School Library Journal review for BUILD, DOGS, BUILD

From the Publisher

Kids who get starry-eyed over trucks, earth-moving equipment, and construction sites should go gaga over this book, which has a pack of very capable canines scampering around and digging at a construction site.

Booklist for DIG

With its punchy rhymes and Hanna-Barbera panoramas, DIG, DOGS, DIG hops along with the bouncy effervescence of P.D. Eastman’s Go Dog. Go!.

New York Times Book Review for DIG

2014-06-18
A crew comprising cheerful, cartoon-style canines and one cleverly camouflaged cat continues their construction careers in this third entry in an engaging series, following Dig, Dogs, Dig and Build, Dogs, Build (both 2013).This time, the diligent dogs are working on a highway, both resurfacing a road and creating a new section of highway by blasting through a mountain with explosives. The newly built highway segment ends next to a river, so the dogs magically conjure up the design and materials needed for a new, four-lane bridge. There's a gap in logic here that cuts out the role of the civil engineer and ignores the necessity of planning a major project of any sort in the real world, but these canine construction workers are so determined and doggone cheerful that their logical lapse must be overlooked. As in the previous volumes, construction vocabulary and geological terms are emphasized in the rhyming text, with a punchy quatrain on each page. Bold, computer-generated illustrations are filled with trucks, machinery, dogs in motion, and lots of gooey substances like asphalt and "mile after mile of / axle-deep muck."Big trucks, jovial dogs and snappy rhyming text serve again as the building blocks of another successful entry in this solidly built series. (Picture book. 3-8)

Kirkus Reviews