My beagle looks EXACTLY like Poky. I have never seen an artist's version of a more adorable dog than Poky. His adventures are always sweet and brighten up my day. I loved these books when I was about three and my mom and dad read them to me. I still love them even though I am older. I wish they were more widely available. It is REALLY important to teach kids to love and respect animals. After school every day I volunteer at an animal rescue shelter with my older brother and his girlfriend. The things I have seen and heard break my heart and bring all three of us to tears. Hopefully if more kids grow up learning about how to treat animals and reading books like this that show animals as sweet, adorable, and VERY REAL the next group of older kids and adults will not be so cruel towards our best friends, the four legged ones.

The poky Little Puppy was my favorite as a child. I found that my nephews and neice loved it. It teaches why it is important to obey your parents.

When I was a child I absolutely LOVED this book. My grandma tells met hat she used to read it to me atleast 5 times a day...and she soon memorized the whole book and would have been able to recite it too me if only i didnt have to see the pictures. I remember loving this book as a child and I saved my copy to read to my children when I have them. I definately recommend this book for your child.

Overall, I imagine young children will be thrilled with this book. It does have one error in the paperback edition at least...it says American Ed White was the first man to walk in space. As we all know, the first man to walk in space was in fact the Soviet Union's Aleksei Leonov.

I have an almost 4yr old son with a fascination for anything having to do with Space Shuttles. He does enjoy looking at this book, especially when I'm sitting with him and answering all his questions. It has color pictures on every page having to do with the space program. There is a full page picture of a shuttle lift-off, pictures of astronauts on space walks repairing satellites, and astronauts living inside the shuttle. Overall it's the best book I've found (so far) with color photos for younger children having to do with the shuttles in space. There is enough information for it to be interesting for young readers and enough pictures for it to be of interest to pre-schoolers as well. The reading is about 2nd or 3rd grade level. The book's dimensions are approx. 10 x 10 inches.