Mix-a-Mutt: Make Your Own Wacky Canine!

by Sara Ball

Overview

Flip and flop heads, tails, and bodies to make 1,000 crazy canines!

From the best-selling illustrator of Flip-o-saurus and Flip-o-storic comes another book with charming artwork and die-cut pages for mix-and-match fun—this time with dogs! Mix-a-Mutt lets you create wacky combinations of ten different breeds, including both popular pets like the Labrador Retriever and show dogs like the shaggy Komondor and the wrinkly Shar-Pei.

Each flap features a fun fact about the pictured breed, and inside the front cover is a chart showing the relative size of the dogs featured, from the Yorkshire Terrier to the Great Dane.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789213105
Publisher:	Abbeville Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/09/2018
Series:	Mix-and-Match Board Books , #3
Pages:	22
Sales rank:	743,260
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 12.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Sara Ball is a prolific illustrator of children’s books, including Abbeville’s Mix-a-Mutt, Flip-o-saurus, Flip-a-Feather, and Flip-o-storic.

Table of Contents

Mix and match the following breeds:

• Bulldog
• Dachshund
• Dalmatian
• Great Dane
• Greyhound
• Komondor
• Labrador Retriever
• Poodle
• Shar-Pei
• Yorkshire Terrier

Interviews

Sara Ball is a prolific illustrator of children’s books, including Abbeville's Flip-o-saurus and Flp-o-storic.

Editorial Reviews

"The inside of the front cover lists each of the 10 canine breeds featured in the book, its relative size and weight, and a bit of its history. Each stiff, sturdy page stacked below displays an appealing, side-view dog portrait. ... This well-designed book provides opportunities to learn a little about various breeds, but mostly it offers a great deal of dog-related fun."

Booklist

"Here comes a board book for young children with the interactive appeal they love, not to mention the fun to be had in mixing and matching dog breeds to create unique ... new breeds. ... Mix-a-Mutt’s biographical notes will intrigue [kids] after the early impulse to mix and match the panels has waned."

New York Journal of Books

"Here comes a board book for young children with the interactive appeal they love, not to mention the fun to be had in mixing and matching dog breeds to create unique ... new breeds. ... Mix-a-Mutt’s biographical notes will intrigue [kids] after the early impulse to mix and match the panels has waned."
—New York Journal of Books



“[Ball] cranks up the drollery with a set of big, handsome pooches drawn and colored to set off their distinctive characteristics … She also adds the occasional tail-pulling puppy, silly hat, or other comical side business. In addition to the identifying captions, Garczynski contributes a table of descriptive information about each breed at the beginning. … Dog lovers and young Dr. Moreaus alike will guffaw.”
—Kirkus Reviews


"The inside of the front cover lists each of the 10 canine breeds featured in the book, its relative size and weight, and a bit of its history. Each stiff, sturdy page stacked below displays an appealing, side-view dog portrait. ... This well-designed book provides opportunities to learn a little about various breeds, but mostly it offers a great deal of dog-related fun."
—Booklist

From the Publisher

2018-09-17

Split pages allow mixing and matching sections of 10 purebred canines.

Forget cockapoos and labradoodles—flipping the three segments here back and forth makes for some truly unlikely hybrids: "I'm a Bulldog— / Yorkshire Terrier— / Great Dane mix"; "I'm a Komondor— / Greyhound— / Poodle mix"; "I'm a Dachshund— / Shar-Pei— / Dalmatian mix." Ball (Flip-O-Storic, 2011) cranks up the drollery with a set of big, handsome pooches drawn and colored to set off their distinctive characteristics, posed naturalistically against plain yellow backgrounds, and looking up or out with doggy devotion. She also adds the occasional tail-pulling puppy, silly hat, or other comical side business. In addition to the identifying captions, Garczynski contributes a table of descriptive information about each breed at the beginning. This includes to-scale silhouettes that are helpful since all of the interior dogs are rendered the same size so that the transitions more or less match up. (Although the Yorkie's stubby forelegs still make a peculiar mismatch with the lanky hind limbs of the Great Dane.) Also, each sturdy strip features a "personal" observation, such as the Dalmatian's "I'm known for my distinctive spots. If I open my mouth, you'll even see spots in there." Aside from the note of condescension in the Shar-Pei's claim that its tongue "was once thought to ward off evil spirits," these last are at least innocuous and sometimes informative.

Dog lovers and young Dr. Moreaus alike will guffaw. (Novelty picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews