The Super Duper Dog Park

Human and canine friends join one another to spend a fun-filled day at the Super-Duper Dog Park in this companion volume to The Super Crazy Cat Dance (2010). After traveling by bus through the city, desert, and mountains, everyone arrives at the dog park and takes in a panoramic view of the countless activities, like basketball, swimming, monkey bars, merry-go-round, and roller-blading, in a two-page spread. Artful single-page spreads show wonderful vistas of activities. The story continues with equally charming lunch and an afternoon at the beach, with volleyball, a ride on the Ferris wheel, boat rides, swimming under water, and digging holes in the sand. The human friends concur about how much they love dogs and don’t want the day to end. Steinke’s marvelous art captures a lovely day with detail and easy, rhyming text that will draw readers in time after time. Ages 6–9. (Oct.)