num_pages: 40
description: If you could be any kind of animal what would you be? Would you be a dog that goes ARRRROOOOOOO? Or maybe you would be a sharp-toothed dinosaur that can CHOMP STOMP ROAR! Perhaps you might want to be a hopping frog that goes BOING BOING RIBBET! But maybe you would want to be the best kind of animal of all: a child!With joyful impressionistic illustrations from Caldecott Medalwinning illustrator Chris Raschka and spare rhythmic text from author Jamie A. Swenson that invites playful interaction If You Were a Dog is the perfect read-aloud for your favorite little animal. 
language: English
title: If You Were a Dog
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)