Fred Pudding

by Anne Vittur Kennedy, Anne Vittur Kennedy (Illustrator)

Overview

While Grandma makes bread pudding, her dog Fred has his own recipe—for fun!

Grandma and her grandson are making bread pudding, but her dog, Fred, has his own plans! While the humans are in the kitchen, Fred is busy shredding papers and tissues in the living room. When Grandma mixes, Fred runs in circles, and when she bakes the pudding, Fred lies on the floor under a sunny window. Will the delicious dessert make up for the mess Fred made? This hilarious adventure, inspired by quintessential dog shenanigans, is sure to make all families and dog lovers laugh.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807525821
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	09/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	AD480L (what's this?)
File size:	12 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Anne Vittur Kennedy has been illustrating children's books for twenty-seven years. Her titles include Go Baby! Go Dog! and One Christmas Bear, as well as the illustrations for the Miss Fox's Class series by Eileen Spinelli. Anne and her husband live in Ohio.

Editorial Reviews

2018-05-23
Baking day play.The eponymous Fred is the canine narrator of this story, and he lives with a cheerful, white-haired woman. Throughout the book, she bakes with a little child, whom illustrations cue readers to regard as her grandson. As they measure, pour, and mix ingredients for what will be bread pudding, they seem oblivious to Fred's parallel activity making what he calls "Fred pudding." A picture shows them tearing bread into pieces and putting them into a bowl; on the facing recto, Fred says to "shred some stuff into chunks" and is depicted tearing pages from a book, unravelling a ball of yarn, and pulling on a leg of hosiery. Later, the instruction "Bake" shows the woman and boy putting a pan into an oven on the verso while Fred basks in a shaft of sunlight on the recto. While the humans end up with a finished, edible product, Fred's activities don't contribute to a single thing at book's end. The humans never acknowledge the considerable mischief he's caused, either, and he gets to enjoy a serving of the bread pudding in his dog bowl. Ultimately, this title serves up lots of silliness without a full story arc. The woman presents white, and the child has brown skin and brown, curly hair.Unsatisfying. (Picture book. 3-5)

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