From the cover to the title page, the reader can begin making predictions about this story's plot. I love when a book embraces all features of itself to tell the story!
The main character, a dog, is sooo happy when a lady adopts him from the local shelter. He settles into his new home well until he finds her shoes and has a good chew. His shoe chewing is an ongoing problem so much that he is fearful of returning to the shelter. An unexpected discovery solve this problem in a sweet way.
Shoe Dog tells the story but whenever his owner speaks, her words are featured in speech bubbles with the color background reflecting her mood.
What I loved: the word choice (similes, strong verbs) and how Ms. McDonald reveals the perspective of a dog very well with her word choice-"New Box" "Noisy Paper", "Corner Rug", "Big Bed", "Land of Upstairs", "She Herself"
**Highly recommend.
Strategies: inferring, expanding vocab/word choice, figurative language-similes
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