Dog Breath (BB)

(Board book)

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Meet Hally Tosis, a knee-slappingly funny dog that will take your breath away in this full-colour sturdy board book by Dav Pilkey! Hally the dog has horrible breath. Even the skunks avoid her. So when Mr and Mrs Tosis decide enough is enough and try to find a new home for Hally, the Tosis kids hatch a plan to get rid of Hally's bad breath so they can keep her. They try everything:a breathtaking view, Breath of a Salesman and even a speedy rollercoaster, but nothing works. That is until some unwelcome visitors need to be put in their place...and luckily Hally is there to save the day! Children will want to read this hilarious book over and over again. From Dav Pilkey, author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series This is the board book edition of one of Dav Pilkey's bestselling picture book, Dog Breath The perfect book to encourage children's imagination and creativity

Reviews

"Guaranteed to ward off smellancholy." -- Publishers Weekly

"One hilarious pun after another." -- The Horn Book

"Charmingly told and illustrated." -- TV Guide Parents' Guide

Author Bio

When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books -- the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.

In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to write and illustrate for kids. He took her advice and created his first book, World War Won, which won a national competition in 1986. Dav made many other books before being awarded the California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath (1994) and the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy (1996).

In 2002, Dav published his first full-length graphic novel for kids, called The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby. It was both a USA Today and New York Times bestseller. Since then, he has published more than a dozen full-length graphic novels for kids, including the bestselling Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club series.

Dav's stories are semi-autobiographical and explore universal themes that celebrate friendship, empathy, and the triumph of the good-hearted.

When he is not making books for kids, Dav loves to kayak with his wife in the Pacific Northwest.