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Dave is a dog. Dave is a dog who loves to sleep all day long. Lilly thinks Dave is the laziest dog in the world! But maybe Dave isn't as lazy as Lilly thinks. . . .
Find out what Dave really does all day in this debut picture book from author-illustrator Jarvis!
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-As a canine companion, Dave is about as boring as they come-he sleeps all day and night. What his owner Lilly doesn't know is that he is a sleepwalker. While she is at school, Dave has all kinds of adventures, from winning contests and visiting the zoo to exploring underwater and performing in the circus. He even becomes the town's hero when he inadvertently stops a diamond robber. Since Lilly remains oblivious to his shenanigans, it's a good thing that she loves him just the way he is. Portrayed with an unfailingly serene smile, Dave is a tubby but happy sort composed of smooth shapes produced by the digital alteration of pencil, paint, and chalk. Despite heavy use of white space, the pages are filled with a tastefully restrained palette of bright, high-saturation colors and neutral tints with a plethora of patterns drawn in pencil, including Dave's omnipresent "Zs." In contrast to the business of the textures around Dave, the dog and human inhabitants of the story fall flat and inexpressive with buggy round eyes and cartoon smiles, even when drawn in motion. The story is simple, but the phrasing becomes a little awkward with choppy sentence structure. VERDICT This debut shows promise of lively entertainments to come even if Lazy Dave is not an essential purchase.-Erin Reilly-Sanders, Ohio State University, Columbus © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Dave the dog sleeps a lot, but he has amazing adventures while sleepwalking. From winning contests to tightrope-walking to heroically thwarting a robbery, Dave would impress his owner--if only she knew what happens when she leaves for school. Pencil, paint, chalk, and digital illustrations are pleasantly childlike, though the unremarkable story plays out predictably. (c) Copyright 2016. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Dave appears to be one lazy dog, but what his unsuspecting owner doesn't know is that this sleepwalking canine might just save the day. Lilly's dog, Dave, loves to sleep. Like, a lot. In the bath (with soap and bubbles), in the laundry, and, of course, in Lilly's bed. Lilly thinks he's just plain lazy, but what she doesn't know is Dave is a sleepwalker. During school hours, Dave is extremely busy: taking walks, winning a dog show, climbing a mountain, and even stopping a thiefall while asleep! This last deed makes him the town hero, and his image is everywhere. Lilly, oblivious to the fact that the dog on television is actually Dave, laments not having a crime-fighting pooch. But all ends well when she says she loves him just as he is. The pencil, paint, and chalk illustrations, done in an early 1970s style, are extremely appealing. As Dave blithely traverses the well-designed pages, there is an ease and freshness to it all. Jarvis' toothsome, primary palette further conveys a carefree cheer, and readers will want a Dave of their own when they see the floppy-eared pup deliciously sprawled across Lilly's comforter, his weight and warmth snuggled close. A delightfully drawn and amusing take on what the pet does when the owner is away. (Picture book. 3-6) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
An orange, snuggly looking dog can't seem to stay awake to play with its owner, Lilly. Through snippets of scenes captured in colorful action bubbles, Dave is shown sleeping in various comfy places in a hamper, on a bed, even in the bathtub with a frustrated Lilly. When Lilly leaves for school, Dave sleepwalks through a simply drawn town scribbly tree trunks and spindly tree house ladders in the distance. He saves the day when he unintentionally trips a thief, the stolen jewels from his heist spilling out all over the sidewalk. Dave becomes a local hero (all while sleeping), and Lilly gets home only to complain that Dave hasn't left his doggie bed all day. The scenes are drawn minimally but effectively a door in the background of a clean page indicates Lilly's family room; on a double-page spread, Dave sleep-trots past pale pastel houses and trees with vivid foliage all in a loose, childlike hand with bold patches of bright, appealing color. Extra fun for young dog-lovers.--Grant, Sarah Copyright 2016 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
THE SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD where I grew up had leafy oak trees, manicured lawns and absolutely no fences. Which meant that I, walking to and from elementary school, had to traverse a terrifying half-mile of pet pooches free-ranging themselves from yard to yard, barking, drooling, tail-wagging and scaring the dickens out of me and my Barbie lunchbox. I was (and still might be) desperately afraid of dogs. But that doesn't mean I'm completely immune to their charms. Mabel, the canine heroine of "Naughty Mabel" by Nathan Lane (yes, that Nathan Lane) and Devlin Elliott, illustrated by Dan Krall, tries her best to be as charming as can be. Mabel is a coddled French bulldog living the good life in a schmancy McMansion, enjoying spa days, caviar and licking her privates. Her human parents call her "naughty" for misdeeds as varied as knocking over a vase of flowers and driving a golf cart into a police car's fender. One evening, the rambunctious Frenchie is put to bed so that her people can throw a glamorous soiree. Which, of course, she crashes, to smashing and crashing effect - with tipped tables, shattered dishes and a resounding intestinal eruption that closes down the joint. Her owners forgive her. I don't know why. I honestly don't. Dan Krall's illustrations are charmingly frenetic and cartoony with a palette of turquoise and pink. The big-eyed, huge-eared Mabel is adorably rendered, especially when she's wearing her magenta tutu. She is, at the same puzzling time, a typical dog (see her running with hot dogs in her mouth) and an anthropomorphized child (see her paint over a painting of Marie Antoinette). The artist has a background in animation, and it shows: The page compositions are dynamic, and the book's characters are hilariously expressive. The book certainly owes a debt of tone and structure to Kay Thompson's "Eloise" and, in turn, Ian Falconer's "Olivia." But where Eloise begins her narration, "I am Eloise I am 6," Mabel opens with a less sympathetic "Hello, darlings. Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Mabel. Mabel of the Hamptons." And where Thompson's portrait of a singular youngster has, at its heart, a story of a lonely child in an adult world, and Falconer's series is a salute to children's self-determination and imagination, I'm not quite sure what Mabel is trying to say. That it's fun in the Hamptons? That she's a party pooper? For all of Mabel's big-eared visual charm, I couldn't make any real sense of the story. Lazy Dave, in the book of the same name by a debut author and illustrator, Jarvis, is a much calmer pet. So calm, in fact, that he sleeps through practically the whole book. But that doesn't mean a lack of action: Dave is a sleepwalker, and thus, as he sleeps, he manages to have quite the time - chasing cats, walking tightropes, climbing mountains and visiting outer space. He even unwittingly apprehends a jewelry thief and is celebrated by the mayor, all of which goes unnoticed by his young owner. Dave looks a lot like "Harry the Dirty Dog," with his straight head, pert nose and midcentury-modern style. The rest of the art is equally appealing: Jarvis uses a limited color palette, textured shapes, and loose chalk and pencil lines to create a style both simple and sophisticated. Dare I say Oliver Jeffers meets Jon Klassen? I think I dare. And although, at the end of the book, both Dave and his owner remain strangely unaware of his somnambulistic heroics, the story is simply satisfying. The story of "Sad, the Dog," by Sandy Fussell, illustrated by Tull Suwannakit, is one with a similarly satisfying, if even simpler, story. "Sad" is the name of a bulldog puppy whose owners, the crotchety Mr. and Mrs. Cripps, not wanting him in the first place, pack up, relocate and leave him behind. The family who moves into their house discovers poor abandoned Sad and immediately takes him in. Every characteristic that the Cripps had considered a fault becomes, through the eyes of the new owners, a virtue. How lucky! Tull Suwannakit portrays Sad and his surroundings in soft watercolors, resulting in a calm and quiet book. Quiet, but not boring; on each page, small details draw the reader's eyes: a quizzical bird or two, a concerned mouse, a nervous garden gnome, a thoughtful face on a bunny slipper. Sad himself is sweetly painted, but the humans are oddly drawn with unreadable expressions and overly stylized in a way that I found rather disconcerting. The story of "A Dog Wearing Shoes," wonderfully told by Sangmi Ko, cinematically begins before the title page even appears. Mini and her mom find a small stray dog in the middle of a crowded street and decide to take him home. The dog, ahem, is wearing shoes. Mini and the dog have some fun together, but when she takes him to the park for a walk, he runs away, leaving one little yellow shoe behind, like a canine Cinderella. When the dog is located in an animal shelter, Mini finds it in her heart to look for the dog's original owner; the one who gave him shoes, of course. The dog and his young owner are joyfully reunited, and Mini and her mom return to the shelter in search of their own, albeit shoeless, pup. Ko's illustrations are in pencil with tiny pops of color, and adroitly straddle the line between cartoon and more illustrative art, like a drawing by Sempé. The spread where Mini and her mom give up the dog for lost is an emotional scene of long shadows and lonely white space. There's interesting pacing borrowed from sequential comics, and a lovely afterword with information about pet adoption. The dog himself is small, with a sweet face and fuzzy, floppy ears, and is so cute and gentle looking that I might be tempted to swallow my fears and go check out the pups at my local S.P.C.A. But probably not. I'm still a little scared. LISA BROWN is the illustrator, most recently, of "Mummy Cat," written by Marcus Ewert.