This book would be considered a part of the science fiction genre of children's literature. The book is about a teacher who is teaching the class about dogs. He refers to them as Earth Hounds. I really enjoyed this book. It had a lot of subtle humorous things throughout the entire book. But I do not think children would pick up on these. I really think this would be great for getting children to use their imagination though. Thinking about other nonhuman life being in class just as they are would really get them going.
My only concern about this book would be that children would have troubles getting around the terminology that the author uses. She uses words like earthling to refer to humans, moohorn to refer to a cow, and sniffer to refer to the nose of the dog. I think it is cute and creative to use words like this but I think that a child would become very confused and may not understand.
The illustrations are hilarious and well done. They add to the parts where the words are not enough. Overall it is a very good book for the science fiction genre.
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