Review by Booklist Review
Scruff, the canine hero of One Hundred Bones (2016), is a mutt who's known to love sausages. Unfortunately, his reputation becomes a liability after someone steals 100 sausages from the butcher shop. When Scruff spies his picture on wanted posters, he calls on his four best pals a pug, a poodle, an Afghan hound, and a dachshund to help him catch the real crook. Relying on Scruff's acute sense of smell and his digging prowess, they quickly capture the culprit to justice and earn a reward: Scrumptious, succulent, sizzling SAUSAGES! The book's generous size allows for some large, dynamic two-page illustrations as well as other double-page spreads featuring a number of small pictures. Kids will enjoy looking for the individual dogs as well as the cat who can be spotted prowling through many scenes. Human characters are secondary and, in the stylized digital art, are generally shown only as a dog might see them from the chest down. A good read-aloud choice for fans of Scruff's previous adventure.--Phelan, Carolyn Copyright 2017 Booklist
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-Zommer follows up One Hundred Bones with another title about Scruff the dog. This time, Scruff, who is wild about wieners ("teeny ones, spicy ones, big fat juicy ones, curly ones, stinky ones, and even veggie ones!"), becomes the prime suspect when all of the sausages at the local butcher's shop, the Saucy Sausage, go missing. Scruff knows he's innocent, and he and his pals set out to discover the true culprit. With short and sweet text-just a few sentences per page-and entertainingly exaggerated images, this is a great choice for storytime. The straightforward narrative has few surprises, but the language has a bouncy, energetic quality that will keep youngsters giggling. The digitally created images evoke the look of smudgy watercolors. Like the text, the illustrations are quirky, from a hilarious spread of Scruff dreaming of various types of sausages to spot art of the dogs thinking up inventive ways to catch the crook. VERDICT Purchase this title for a doggone good read-aloud and where One Hundred Bones is popular.-Mahnaz Dar, School Library Journal © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Scruff, dog extraordinaire, leads a diverse group of dog friends on an investigation to determine who stole the sausages from the butcher's shop.Scruff's favorite thing in the world is sausages (author/illustrator Zommer treats readers to a visual variety of sausages100 of themright off the bat in the endpapers), and he likes to stop outside the butcher's shop daily to ogle the sausages hanging in its window. One fateful day the sausages are missingstolen. Scruff, suspected by the mayor, the police chief, and the butcher of stealing them (with the "Wanted" signs to show it), is determined to prove his innocence by finding the thief. The simple plot shows how Scruff sniffs out the real thief, after which he and his friends our rewarded by his erstwhile accuserswith a meal of sausages, of course. The story's real zing comes from its collagelike, digitally created illustrations. Lively and almost slapdash in their presentation, they amplify and complement the narrative urgency Scruff feels to catch the thief. Zommer omits or obscures the faces and heads of the humans in the story, but their hands are light-skinned. A cat that skulks in the illustrations throughout adds a weak ending twist. A lighthearted frolic with lively illustrationsScruff peeing on the tree that holds his "Wanted" sign is bound to be a reader favorite. (Picture book. 4-7) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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