{"id":173,"date":"2008-08-01T00:06:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T04:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/01\/review-of-down-girl-and-sit-smarter-than-squirrels-by-lucy-nolan\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T15:48:00","slug":"review-of-down-girl-and-sit-smarter-than-squirrels-by-lucy-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Review of Down Girl and Sit: Smarter Than Squirrels, by Lucy Nolan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Girl and Sit<\/em><\/p>\n

Smarter Than Squirrels<\/em><\/p>\n

by Lucy Nolan<\/p>\n

illustrated by Mike Reed<\/p>\n

Marshall Cavendish, New York, 2004.\u00a0 64 pages.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.marshallcavendish.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mikereedillustration.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

With four chapters, lots of pictures, and lots of implied humor, here’s a book perfect for a child ready to read chapter books on his or her own.<\/p>\n

Down Girl, a busy dog, narrates this book.\u00a0 She\u00a0and the dog next door, Sit,\u00a0have an important job.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Down Girl says,<\/p>\n

“It is up to us to keep the world safe.\u00a0 Sometimes Sit and I wish we had help, but we’ve gotten used to doing the job alone.<\/p>\n

“The secret to our success is simple.\u00a0 We are smarter than squirrels.<\/p>\n

I don’t think people realize how many birds and squirrels are out here.\u00a0 If they did, they’d never leave their houses.<\/p>\n

Birds and squirrels steal almost everything in sight.\u00a0 What they don’t steal, they eat.\u00a0 They are very clever, but they are not as clever as we are.\u00a0 Guess where we chase them.\u00a0 We chase them up trees!<\/p>\n

“You never see a dog in a tree, do you?\u00a0 That’s because dogs are smart.\u00a0 We know it would hurt to fall out.<\/p>\n

“Birds and squirrels never remember this.\u00a0 It’s easy to keep the world safe from birds and squirrels.”<\/p>\n

Down Girl’s master is named Rruff.\u00a0 It is obvious that Rruff loves Down Girl, since he shouts her name so often.<\/p>\n

When a new creature comes to the neighborhood named Here Kitty Kitty, the dogs know their job has gotten more challenging.\u00a0 Fortunately, Down Girl and Sit cleverly rise to the challenge.<\/p>\n

A look at life from a dog’s point of view.\u00a0 Lots of fun!<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n

www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/down_girl_and_sit.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Girl and Sit Smarter Than Squirrels by Lucy Nolan illustrated by Mike Reed Marshall Cavendish, New York, 2004.\u00a0 64 pages. http:\/\/www.marshallcavendish.com\/ http:\/\/www.mikereedillustration.com\/ With four chapters, lots of pictures, and lots of implied humor, here’s a book perfect for a child ready to read chapter books on his or her own. Down Girl, a busy dog, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginning-chapter-books","category-childrens-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}