Stick Dog Wants a Hot Dog is the second in the Stick Dog series by Tom Watson. We have not actually read the first Stick Dog book so this is our first introduction to Stick Dog!
Stick Dog is quite different to other children’s books I have come across as it is in a notebook format with all the stick drawings and is written in a really chatty style. Even the pages have lines like a notebook, and the text is more spaced out to make it easier to read for younger children who may be less confident or newer readers.
Stick Dog is of course the main character, along with his 4 friends: Poo Poo, Karen, Mutt and Stripes (who are all dogs)
The basic story of this book is quite simple – Stick Dog and his friends want the hot dogs. But in order to get them, they have to go through loads of adventures like trying to fly a helicopter and one of the dogs even gets trapped inside a human’s house.
I felt that this book is still a bit advanced for Mr Z at the moment, as it will work better when a child can read it to themselves because of the notebook format of the book and the tone it is written in. It is pretty funny and very cleverly done so I am sure he will really enjoy it more once he is able to read to himself.
Based on this, I would say it is best for a child of about 6+ but it would depend how able they are with reading and some 5 year olds may be able to manage? I think it would work well for children up to about age 12 as it’s not overly babyish. There is lots of humour that would appeal to all ages, like when the dogs spot a man doing his yoga and putting his iPod on and they wonder what on earth is going on.
Of course in the end, Stick Dog has to finally achieve getting his hot dog! This rounds the book off very nicely, and then there is a small preview to the next book if you want to get a taste of more to come soon!
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September 20, 2013 @ 10:31 pm
a zebra I think, fun doing very thin stripes!
September 20, 2013 @ 10:52 pm
A giraffe 🙂
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September 20, 2013 @ 10:52 pm
Fab book for children
September 20, 2013 @ 10:55 pm
A giraffe
September 20, 2013 @ 11:06 pm
A Chimpanzee
September 20, 2013 @ 11:20 pm
An elephant
September 21, 2013 @ 6:09 am
A cat
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September 21, 2013 @ 6:52 am
A tiger!
September 21, 2013 @ 6:57 am
A stick elephant as it would be funny to see a stick thin one!
September 21, 2013 @ 8:28 am
a rabbit
September 21, 2013 @ 9:28 am
Tortoise – we have two and they have more character than one might think
September 21, 2013 @ 9:31 am
a horse be fun
September 21, 2013 @ 9:38 am
pig
September 21, 2013 @ 10:46 am
A stick insect!
September 21, 2013 @ 11:45 am
Stick Giraffe so he can see above all the other animals and tell tales of what he can see
September 21, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
A Giraffe
September 21, 2013 @ 3:21 pm
Something easy to draw like a spider 🙂
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September 21, 2013 @ 5:31 pm
Stick cat!
September 21, 2013 @ 5:44 pm
A stick giraffe
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September 21, 2013 @ 7:58 pm
Stick cat
September 21, 2013 @ 8:07 pm
A stick panda
September 21, 2013 @ 9:13 pm
A pig – great prize
September 21, 2013 @ 11:12 pm
A Bunny Rabbit!
September 22, 2013 @ 7:38 am
A Meercat
September 22, 2013 @ 9:20 am
a Llama
September 22, 2013 @ 9:45 am
A giraffe with it’s long neck begs to be a stick figure I think.
September 22, 2013 @ 10:27 am
A horse 🙂
September 22, 2013 @ 10:33 am
Probably a cat, as I have had a pet cat for years.
September 22, 2013 @ 11:00 am
A Giraffe
September 22, 2013 @ 11:57 am
a stick giraffe x
September 22, 2013 @ 12:13 pm
A giraffe. I love them and I think it would look really cool & funny 🙂
September 22, 2013 @ 2:20 pm
A penguin 🙂
September 22, 2013 @ 3:45 pm
an elephant
September 22, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
A Pig
September 22, 2013 @ 6:53 pm
whats easy? a meeakat
September 22, 2013 @ 8:27 pm
stick rabbit
September 22, 2013 @ 9:13 pm
A giraffe
September 22, 2013 @ 9:45 pm
a stick hamster
September 23, 2013 @ 1:01 pm
a lion
September 23, 2013 @ 8:01 pm
A stick Hedgehog because it would look very peculiar.
September 24, 2013 @ 9:44 am
a giraffe 🙂
September 24, 2013 @ 11:23 am
a sea lion 🙂
September 24, 2013 @ 2:31 pm
a cat 🙂
September 24, 2013 @ 6:16 pm
Panda
September 25, 2013 @ 11:08 am
love this book 🙂
September 26, 2013 @ 12:30 pm
As a dog is already done a tiger I think
September 26, 2013 @ 3:47 pm
a stick cat
September 30, 2013 @ 9:07 am
hamster
October 2, 2013 @ 4:54 am
a cat as my son loves cats
October 2, 2013 @ 3:06 pm
a dolphin
October 2, 2013 @ 9:03 pm
ant 🙂
October 4, 2013 @ 12:52 am
a big bear
October 4, 2013 @ 12:53 am
a bear
October 5, 2013 @ 12:52 am
A giraffe
October 5, 2013 @ 2:27 pm
A cat
October 5, 2013 @ 3:12 pm
a stick monkey
October 5, 2013 @ 3:55 pm
Sticky the sticky stick insect. It would be easy to draw (because he already is a stick shape) and he would have funny adventures about getting stuck to things
October 5, 2013 @ 4:09 pm
An elephant 🙂
October 5, 2013 @ 9:50 pm
A DOG
October 8, 2013 @ 9:02 am
giraffe 🙂
October 8, 2013 @ 10:33 am
A cat. Xx
October 8, 2013 @ 4:45 pm
A cat
October 10, 2013 @ 6:15 pm
A rabbit
October 10, 2013 @ 7:06 pm
a bunny rabbit xx
October 10, 2013 @ 9:34 pm
A stick giraffe of course 🙂
October 12, 2013 @ 3:05 pm
A stick penguin!
October 13, 2013 @ 5:37 pm
A stick owl, maybe?
October 13, 2013 @ 10:23 pm
A Dog x
October 14, 2013 @ 9:34 am
Dog
October 14, 2013 @ 2:28 pm
A guinea pig!
October 14, 2013 @ 5:10 pm
A (carrot) stick bunny!
October 14, 2013 @ 6:01 pm
My stick animal would be a giraffe – he’d be able to see into all the other zoo enclosures and he’d be able to tell all the other animals secrets and stores
October 15, 2013 @ 12:56 am
stick whale 🙂 it’d be a fun concept !
October 15, 2013 @ 1:54 pm
a stick pony
October 15, 2013 @ 3:34 pm
a stick cow
October 15, 2013 @ 9:39 pm
a tiger, they are so pretty
October 15, 2013 @ 11:07 pm
Elephant
October 16, 2013 @ 5:02 am
Giraffe
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October 16, 2013 @ 9:11 am
a cat
October 16, 2013 @ 10:20 am
A stick fish
October 16, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
sticky elephant
October 16, 2013 @ 12:09 pm
A giraffe
October 16, 2013 @ 1:25 pm
Rhino-stix
October 16, 2013 @ 2:56 pm
A penguin!
October 16, 2013 @ 3:52 pm
A Giraffe
October 16, 2013 @ 4:53 pm
A cat
October 16, 2013 @ 5:21 pm
a stick mouse
October 16, 2013 @ 5:22 pm
an eagle!
October 16, 2013 @ 7:02 pm
It would have to be a playful Monkey.
October 16, 2013 @ 8:03 pm
A Stick insect!!
October 16, 2013 @ 8:16 pm
a tiger 🙂
October 16, 2013 @ 8:37 pm
A stick T-rex 🙂
October 16, 2013 @ 8:39 pm
I’d go with a stick monkey
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October 16, 2013 @ 9:07 pm
giraffe
October 16, 2013 @ 10:14 pm
a zebra
October 16, 2013 @ 10:25 pm
i stick elephant because I would like to see how it is done.
October 17, 2013 @ 6:16 am
giraffe
October 17, 2013 @ 7:26 am
Fab book for children
October 17, 2013 @ 8:15 am
A stick rhino
October 17, 2013 @ 8:51 am
A gorilla
October 17, 2013 @ 10:04 am
a zebra
October 17, 2013 @ 11:14 am
A gorilla
October 17, 2013 @ 12:12 pm
A Penguin
October 17, 2013 @ 12:56 pm
An elephant
October 17, 2013 @ 1:50 pm
stick cat
October 17, 2013 @ 6:18 pm
unicorn!
October 17, 2013 @ 7:44 pm
A spider – quite easy to draw
October 17, 2013 @ 8:28 pm
A stick Insect
October 17, 2013 @ 9:01 pm
tiger
October 17, 2013 @ 10:16 pm
a panda