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Officer Buckle and Gloria

by Peggy Rathmann

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ISBN13: 9780399226168
ISBN10: 0399226168
Condition: Standard
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Officer Buckle knows more about safety than anyone else in Napville, but his dull presentations put his audiences to sleep. Enter Gloria, Napville's new police dog. Gloria knows just how to liven up the safety speeches--as long as Officer Buckle's back is turned! Full color. Caldecott medal Book.
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tryprz, October 19, 2006 (view all comments by tryprz)
Is it possible to fall hopelessly in love with a stubby, middle-aged cop who bores little kids to tears? Is it also thinkable to cheer on an annoyingly over-confident dog skilled in the art of one-upmanship? Yes, but only when conceived by the brilliant mind of Peggy Rathman (10 minutes 'til bedtime).

Officer Buckle is a police officer who fails miserably at his job: delivering safety lectures to school children. Because he is so rotten at it, he is forced to work with a doggie partner to spice up his talks; however, Gloria, the doggie, is just a little bit too skilled at what she does. Comical confusion ensues and erupts into the most emotionally wrought revelation of betrayal you will ever read (in a children's book, anyway).

Please read this story to your child, your children, or to yourself. The illustrations are soft and nostalgic, at times a hoot, but that all too universal dynamic between Officer Buckle and Gloria will hit your empathy strings hard.
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ISBN:
9780399226168
performance Narrated:
Rathmann, Peggy
production Music composed:
Ernest V. Troost.
Illustrator:
Rathmann, Peggy
Author:
Rathmann, Peggy
Publisher:
Putnam Publishing Group
Location:
United States
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Humorous Stories
Subject:
Dogs
Subject:
Schools
Subject:
Police
Subject:
Safety
Subject:
Accidents
Subject:
Health & Medicine - Safety
Subject:
Police dogs
Subject:
School stories
Subject:
Schools -- Fiction.
Subject:
Health & Daily Living - Safety
Subject:
Animals - Dogs
Copyright:
1995
Series:
Weston Woods read-along CD
Series Volume:
v. 2
Publication Date:
September 1995
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
Children/juvenile
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
40
Dimensions:
4 3/4 in. +
Media Run Time:
000819$a000812
Age Level:
04-08
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