Bulldog's Big Day
PreS-K-After Bulldog bakes a batch of cookies, he goes looking for a job so he can be part of the hustle-bustle all around him. He tries working at the fire station, washing windows on tall buildings, sign painting at a flower shop, and shelving books in a bookstore. He fails at everything. He crashes the fire truck's ladder through the roof and freaks out at the height of the windows he's supposed to wash. He sneezes in the flower shop, sending art supplies and flowers crashing, and gets too involved reading the books he's been asked to shelve. All four employers tell him that he's not suited for the jobs. Bulldog offers them cookies and then heads home. That evening, Giraffe the firefighter, Spider the window washer, Moose the sign painter, and Elephant the bookseller show up at his door asking for more cookies. Bulldog discovers his true calling and opens Bulldog's Cookie Bakery. The illustrations were created in pen and ink, colored in Adobe Photoshop. The arrangement of the story is reminiscent of Richard Scarry's Busy Busy Town (Goldencraft, 1995). There are five or six scenes per spread. Everything is outlined in a thin black line and colored in flat hues. There's a lot to look at on each page, and children will enjoy poring over all the details.-Ieva Bates, Ann Arbor District Library, MI (c) Copyright 2010.  Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc.  No redistribution permitted.