Two Dogs in a Trench Coat Go to School (Two Dogs in a Trench Coat #1)

by Julie Falatko, Colin Jack (Illustrator)

Overview

Sassy and Waldo need to save their boy from being bored all day in class, but the school won't let two dogs inside. Good thing they found that trench coat!

Sassy and Waldo are good dogs.Sassy and Waldo spend their day keeping the house safe. Has a squirrel ever gotten inside? No!But every day their boy, Stewart, leaves for a scary place: school!Sassy and Waldo need to save Stewart. But they don't let dogs into school. Not even the really good ones.Sassy and Waldo put on a trench coat.Now everyone at Bea Arthur Elementary thinks they are a new student.Everyone except Stewart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338189513
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	05/29/2018
Series:	Two Dogs in a Trench Coat , #1
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	890,629
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Julie Falatko is the author of the Snappsy the Alligator series, illustrated by Tim Miller; No Boring Stories, illustrated by Charles Santoso; and The Great Indoors, illustrated by Ruth Chan. Julie lives in Maine with her family, including her two dogs, and loves to make everyone (except the dogs) go to museums. To learn more about Julie, please visit juliefalatko.com.

Colin Jack has illustrated several books for children, including the Galaxy Zack series, Toads on Toast, and If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur. He also works as a story artist and character designer at DreamWorks Studios. He lives in California with his wife and two kids.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Two Dogs in a Trench Coat Go to School:

* "With plenty of comical reinforcement from Jack's freewheeling sketches, Falatko spins this promising premise into a hilarious romp." Booklist, starred review

"A series that will keep your 7-year-old laughing." — TODAY

From the Publisher

05/01/2018
Gr 2–4—The title pretty much says it all. Two dogs, Waldo and Sassy, do in fact stand on top of each other, put on a trench coat, and impersonate a new student so that they can save their owner Stewart from the horrible place known as school. They can't understand why he escapes from them every morning and goes to a place where he does "nothing" all day. At Bea Arthur Memorial Elementary School and Learning Commons, everyone but Stewart thinks that "Salty from Liver, Ohio" is a new transfer student. Readers will likely suspend disbelief for scene after scene of silliness as the dogs come to enjoy school and save Stewart's science presentation. The book's slapstick humor and gags play largely on the dog's superior sense of smell, love of meat products, and obsession with squirrels. The design and typography will be appealing to reluctant readers—food words are in bold, and when the dogs speak, their words are italicized. VERDICT A goofy offering for readers who like over-the-top fare.—Tim Wadham, Children's Literature Consultant, Puyallup, WA

School Library Journal

2018-02-13
Giggle-inducing shenanigans ensue when two loyal dogs hatch a plan to save their human boy from school.Waldo loves food, Sassy loves naps, and they both love Stewart and want to rescue him from that horrible, boring place called school, which makes Stewart smell like "a weird mixture of boredom and anxiety." The intrepid pooches commence with an operation they code name Pepperoni. Under the titular trench coat, they disguise themselves as a human to infiltrate Bea Arthur Memorial Elementary School. Bulldog Sassy forms the bottom half, while terrier Waldo, who can speak Human, stands on her shoulders. As new student Salty Woofadogington from Liver, Ohio, the dogs discover that school is great: They get to eat sloppy Joes, play Frisbee, and sing (read: howl) in music class. They fool everyone except Stewart, who's lucky Waldo and Sassy love school; he doesn't even have a topic for a project that's due tomorrow. Waldo and Sassy fly into action. They have the perfect subject: squirrels—dogs are squirrel experts, after all. The boisterous third-person narration plays with typography: All the dogs' favorite foods (just about every possible comestible, including carrots) are in bold text, while Waldo's dialogue as Salty is in a faux typewritten face. The tale is further enlivened by the cartoonish black-and-white illustrations, which depict Stewart with paper-white skin, but some secondary characters have dark skin, notably Salty's teacher, Ms. Twohey, who is not entirely convinced by her new student.For readers who appreciate the goofy. (Fantasy. 7-12)

Kirkus Reviews