Module 8: Bertie Was a Watchdog

Bertie Was a Watchdog

written by John Walton

illustrated by Arthur Robbins

Publisher: Candlewick, 2002    

ISBN: 0763613851   

Price: $ 10.99

If you like to see the "underdog" triumph then you'll love Walton's, Bertie Was a Watchdog.

Bertie was not a watchdog in the "protect the family, ferocious sense." He was called a watchdog because he was not bigger than a watch. What he lacked in size he made up for with brains and courage. He foils a robber who breaks into his house and becomes a hero. The medal is even bigger than Bertie. The illustrations add to the humorous text. Expect this to generate some laughs and cries of "read it again!"

Reviews:

Kirkus Reviews: " Brains overcome brawn once again in this laugh-out-loud encounter between a huge, leering burglar and a minuscule canine guardian."

"Bertie Was a Watchdog." Kirkus Reviews 70, no. 9 (2002) http://ezproxy.twu.edu:2052/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=6715488&site=ehost-live.

Publishers Weekly: " Youngsters will be won over as well--both by the pooch's brainy pluck ad the reassuring moral that right can triumph over might."

Zaleski, Jeff, Diane Roback, Jennifer M. Brown, and Jason Britton. "Bertie Was a Watchdog." Publishers Weekly 249, no. 18 (2002): 56. http://ezproxy.twu.edu:2052/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=6635294&site=ehost-live.