Treat

by Mary Sullivan

Overview

From the author of Up On Bob, a whimsical tale of a Boston Terrier with a short attention span and his never-ending pursuit of what he wants most.

As the old saying goes, "Give a dog a ball, and he'll beg to play for days. But give a dog a treat, and he'll never stop begging." 

In this companion to Mary Sullivan's Geisel Award-winning Ball, there's a new dog in town and he is focused on finding a treat, no matter the cost. But endless tricks and futile searching (you can't eat Grandma's dentures!) can be pretty exhausting. Just when he's about to give up hope…what's this? TREAT! 

In this hilarious and heartwarming graphic novel/picture book hybrid, readers will rejoice and laugh as they recognize the silly, but always determined, behavior of man's best friend.

"Sullivan spins a hilarious minidrama around a hyperactive canine and a single word of text...Cartoonlike illustrations, precisely drawn in digitally colored pencil, perfectly capture the portly, perky-eared, wide-eyed canine's treat mania."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Sullivan has created quite a treat herself: a canine hero with a one-track mind and an endlessly expressive one-word vocabulary (aided by comically frenetic typography) whose approach to thwarted desire is, as any child will recognize, all too human."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544866492
Publisher:	HMH Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	06/11/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	42 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Mary Sullivan received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and has shown her work in galleries and coffee shops in Dallas and Austin. A freelancer for publishers from Pearson to Scholastic, her first picture book for HMH, Ball, was a 2014 Geisel Honor Book. She lives in Cedar Park, Texas. Visit her website at www.marysullivan.com.
 

Mary Sullivan spent a great deal of time drawing in her formative years. Though she received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, she considers herself a self-trained illustrator. Ms. Sullivan has shown her work at galleries and coffees shops in Dallas and Austin. She channels her considerable creative energy  into projects for Highlights for Children, Scholastic, Innovative Kids, School Zone, Oxford Press U.K., Pearson and many more. Her first picture book for HMH, Ball, was a 2014 Geisel Honor Book. She lives in Cedar Park, Texas.
www.marysullivan.com
Twitter: @sullivandraws
Instagram: @sullivandraws

Editorial Reviews

* Sullivan spins a hilarious minidrama around a hyperactive canine and a single word of text...Cartoonlike illustrations, precisely drawn in digitally colored pencil, perfectly capture the portly, perky-eared, wide-eyed canine's treat mania." —Kirkus, STARRED review * "Sullivan has created quite a treat herself: a canine hero with a one-track mind and an endlessly expressive one-word vocabulary (aided by comically frenetic typography) whose approach to thwarted desire is, as any child will recognize, all too human." —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review "Sullivan’s digitally colored pencil illustrations are packed with imagination, energy, and humor, and the dog’s many emotions are captured particularly well. Kids will eat up this over-the-top ode to snacks." —Booklist "This is a welcome addition to the series and any collection." — School Library Journal —

From the Publisher

★ 2016-01-09
A determined dog's emotions run the gamut while in pursuit of the impossible-to-resist "treat." Waking to an undefined scent, a pudgy pooch follows its nose to a little girl nibbling some cereal. Expecting she will share, it watches her toss the last O-shaped morsel into her mouth, announcing, "treat." Finding another child eating a hotdog, the dog rolls onto its back to attract attention, but she ignores the exposed tummy. Equally disappointed in the treat quest by a boy drawing, a woman sleeping, and a man brushing his teeth, the desperate dog fails to swipe the baby's bottle and despairs after finding its dish filled with inedible toys. Dejected, the dog naps, haunted by surreal dreams of treats, awakening to more cries of "treat." Is this another false lead or the real deal? As in Ball (2013), Sullivan spins a hilarious minidrama around a hyperactive canine and a single word of text. Here, "treat" appears and reappears on nearly every page or frame in a word bubble above the dog's head or one of the children's. Along with exaggerated facial expressions and body language, variations in punctuation, typeface, and size convey the dog's changing moods. Its family appears to be African-American and includes grandparents as well as the appealing passel of tots. Cartoonlike illustrations, precisely drawn in digitally colored pencil, perfectly capture the portly, perky-eared, wide-eyed canine's treat mania. A relentless, single-minded canine's quest proves to be a rib-tickling treat. (Picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews