the poky little puppy by janette sebring lowrey

So what does it mean? Puppies should not be adventurous? Mother is always right? Her food choices are certainly not suitable for dogs in my view. This time the poky little puppy, coming back late, misses out, feels sorry for himself and sees the writing on the fence – no dessert for digging dogs. This routine is repeated several times until the four puppies reform, fill in the hole and get to eat strawberry shortcake. The four puppies miss out on supper because their mother is cross with their hole digging, but by staying behind the poky little puppy gets to eat the goodies. Except for the poky little puppy who lurks behind attracted by the smells of supper rice pudding, chocolate custard and such. On their adventures they discover animals and insects a lizard, a brown hop-toad, a little grass snake. So why is it so good? Or is it? The story concerns five puppies who go adventuring in the wide, wide world after they dig a hole under the fence (the illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren are charming). The Poky Little Puppy is the biggest selling children’s story in American history the only one of the original twelve included in the 75th anniversary boxed set. The Poky Little Puppy is one of the twelve stories first published in October 1942 when Little Golden Books were launched. And while I learned of story’s reputation I didn’t realise how old it is.

As it happened, indeed as it often happens in these circumstances, a copy then fell into my hands during one of my street library rambles. I learned recently in a review that The Poky Little Puppy is considered a classic Little Golden Book beloved of children everywhere.

So yeah, loved the puppies and the story is cute but I couldn’t help but be annoyed at their asshole of a human. So your puppies come home after they could have died because your dumb-ass just let them run around wherever the fuck they want and instead of “AWW I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE HERE MY HAPPY LITTLE FRENS!”, you go “Wah, there’s holes under the fence, fuck you, I ain’t giving you treats.” Then in one bit she was gonna give them chocolate, the hell is this bitch’s problem, does she want to kill her dogs? Oh and let’s not forget the end where the poky little puppy doesn’t get any strawberry cake when everyone else does just because he came home later? You couldn’t, gee I dunno, SAVE HIS FUCKING SLICE LIKE ANYONE WITH AN IQ HIGHER THAN A FUCKING GOLDFISH WOULD! Fuck, their owner annoyed me. On one hand, I thought the story was cute, I enjoyed reading it to my dog! The illustrations and puppies are so cute!

WARNING: JUST BECAUSE THIS IS A KID’S BOOK, THAT DOESN’T MEAN MY REVIEW IS APPROPRIATE FOR KIDS! STRONG LANGUAGE AHEAD!ĭamn, I seriously have mixed thoughts on this.

The poky little puppy by janette sebring lowrey