Carl's Nose

Author: Karen Lee Schmidt

Title: Carl’s Nose

Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books

Date: 2006

Reading Level: 3-7

Number of Pages: 40

Genre: Fiction

Summary of Plot: This book is about a dog named Carl who has a gift of predicting the weather by the way that it smells. When one day his prediction was wrong and he didn’t know what to do. The other animals (characters) in the book stopped believing him, so Carl was out of the job. Now that Carl doesn’t have a job anymore he sleeps on his coach all day long. One day a Tiny Norman went missing and no one could find him the town searched and searched but Tiny Norman was no where to be found. When Carl heard that Tiny Norman was missing he decided to put his nose to the test and he was able to find Tiny Norman. Carl then got his old job back and his new job of finding things that have gone missing.

Your Reaction to the book: I was a little disappointed in the book to be completely honest. I thought that it was good that they made him a hero in the end but I didn’t really like how he became really kind of pathetic when he no longer could predict the weather.

Potential Problems—this book contains really big words mainly the types of clouds but some words I was even having a hard time pronouncing.

Recommendations—I would recommend this book to teachers who are wanting to teach weather in their classrooms. It includes types of clouds and different weather forecasts.