Title: The Digging-est Dog
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers; Book Club Edition edition
Date: 1967
Reading Level: 4-8
Number of Pages: 72
Genre: Fiction picture book
Summary of plot: This book is about a Dog and a Boy. It begins with the boy going and buying the dog. He pays for the dog and then they run home with tremendous speed. When they get home the boy shows the dog where he is going to be living. The next morning while the boy is doing his chores the dog is running around a chasing animals. The Sam the boy decides to name the dog Duke, and that Duke needs some friends. The other dogs begin to dig, but Duke has never dug before so he didn't know what to do. He tries to dig but just falls flat on his face. Because he cannot dig the other dogs just laugh at him and leave him with their noses in the air. So Sam tries to teach Duke how to dig but it doesn't work. That night they both went to bed very sad because Duke could not dig. The next morning Duke tried it again, and this time he could. Duke got so excited that he could dig that he kept on digging, right through Mrs. Thwaites garden. He dug through the farm animals places to live. then he dug through the barber shop and all over highway 81. He dug all the way through the city and up to a hill where he met Sam who was very upset. Sam threatens to take Duke back to the animal store so he can never dig again. Duke was stuck so he dug down, straight down, until he hit water and began to sink. From up above he heard the other dogs talk, some said let him drown others said help him up. So the dogs formed a line and held on tight as they made a chain that went all the way down to the bottom of the hole. When they got to the bottom they got a hold of Duke and pulled him up. Duke knew he had to fix the mess so he went and dug back everything that he had destroyed. Back at the farm he decided to put his digging skills to good use, so know he plows the garden.
Readers Reaction: It was fun reading this book again my mom used to read it to my brothers and I when we were younger and we used to beg her to keep reading it was fun reading it again.
Potential Problems: He dug up the whole city
Recommendation: Read it and love it... One I would read to any kid.
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