Dog Breath (BB) Award-winning author by Dav Pilkey (author)

Meet Hally Tosis, a knee-slappingly funny dog that will take your breath away in this full-colour sturdy board book by Dav Pilkey! Hally the dog has horrible breath. Even the skunks avoid her. So when Mr and Mrs Tosis decide enough is enough and try to find a new home for Hally, the Tosis kids hatch a plan to get rid of Hally’s bad breath so they can keep her. They try everything: a breathtaking view, Breath of a Salesman and even a speedy rollercoaster, but nothing works. That is until some unwelcome visitors need to be put in their place…and luckily Hally is there to save the day! Children will want to read this hilarious book over and over again.

From Dav Pilkey, author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series
This is the board book edition of one of Dav Pilkey’s bestselling picture book, Dog Breath
The perfect book to encourage children’s imagination and creativity

Product Details

Catalogue number

28 in Setanta SCB Offer April 2024

Format

Board Book

ISBN

9781338702446

Publisher

Scholastic US

Date published

January 7th, 2021

Other details

32 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Dav Pilkey

When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books – the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.

In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to illustrate and write. He won a national competition in 1986 and the prize was the publication of his first book, World War Won. He made many other books before being awarded the 1998 California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath, which was published in 1994, and in 1997 he won the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy.

The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, published in 2002, was the first complete graphic novel spin-off from the Captain Underpants series and appeared at #6 on the USA Today bestseller list for all books, both adult and children’s, and was also a New York Times bestseller. It was followed by Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, also a USA Today bestseller. The unconventional style of these graphic novels is intended to encourage uninhibited creativity in kids.

His stories are semi-autobiographical and explore universal themes that celebrate friendship, tolerance, and the triumph of the good-hearted.

Dav loves to kayak in the Pacific Northwest with his wife.