Review by Booklist Review
After flying through the air in Pilot Pups (2008), three endearing stuffed dogs take on more terrestrial duty in motorcycles and a sidecar to protect and serve their fellow toy citizens. Their bedroom community is populated with many pleasant neighbors, and even during the slight plot tension, such as when the friendly police dogs are writing a ticket to a speeding toad and mouse or responding to a fender bender, everyone is cooperative. The warm, gentle oil-paint illustrations are paired perfectly with the rhyming words. A charming storytime offering that closes with the promise of more adventures to come.--Medlar, Andrew Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-K-A lively follow-up to Pilot Pups (S & S, 2008). Leaving from a shopping bag left on a bedroom floor, eight stuffed animals travel a town of blocks via toy car, scooter, tow truck, jeep, and motorcycle with sidecar. The traffic-pup cops ticket a drag-racing mouse and frog, catch a red-light-running goose, and assist at a minor highway crash of toys. Finally, it's time to resume original positions, but since the playthings have gone from being scattered across the floor to being perfectly aligned by type, the young owner's puzzled look ends the story-to readers' insider's glee. Meadows's rhymes offer plenty of energy for this tale of motion, and Andreasen's double-page oils have clean lines and block compositions. The eventful scenes will work well for groups, so tell children to "Fasten helmets./Rev it up," because they'll enjoy this ride.-Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
The creators of Pilot Pups reunite for another pairing: police puppies and motorcycles. Two canine motorcycle cops zoom around busting rule-breaking animal drivers: "Red-light runner / on the loose. / Captain Dog says, / 'CATCH THAT GOOSE!'" Andreasen's friendly oils are well suited to depict the book's (stuffed) animal cast. (c) Copyright 2012. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
A menagerie of small stuffed animals comes to life in a little boy's room, with three diminutive dogs turning into traffic police officers on motorcycles.Other little animals drive cars around the room, illustrating common traffic mishaps. The canine cops patrol pretend roadways around the bedroom, giving out traffic tickets to a speeding mouse and toad, cautioning a goose who runs a red light and sorting out a collision between a bear and a pig. The short, punchy text written in rhyming couplets uses just a few words per page to describe the traffic flow, with lots of action words and concluding exclamation marks revving up the plot. The illustrations, in oil paint on cotton canvas, have a dreamy quality, with muted hues and a mottled effect in the solid backgrounds. Though this complements the imaginary nature of the premise, it's an odd contrast with the pithiness of the text, which calls out for vibrant primary colors. In a clever conclusion, the final page shows the toy vehicles parked on the floor around the bed, with the animals seated in rows with innocent faces. The little boy who owns the toys wears a puzzled expressionhe'd left the cars in a shopping bag in the story's opening illustration.Preschoolers who like to act out imaginary dramas with toy cars and trucks will enjoy these petite pretend police dogs. (Picture book. 3-5)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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