Stick Dog
Stick Dog is a stray dog who lives in a pipe near the highway with his four friends Mutt, Karen, Stripes, and Poo-Poo. They smell hamburgers grilling at a nearby campsite and spend the book trying to invent a plan to steal them. The story is told by an anonymous kid narrator who tells the reader on page one that he cannot draw, which is why every dog in the book is a stick figure. Tom Watson uses the bad-on-purpose art as the central joke, and the series ran 11 volumes from 2013 through 2022, selling more than a million copies along the way.
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A stray dog and his four hungry friends try to steal hamburgers from a campsite in a series narrated by a kid who openly cannot draw.
Tom Watson has published more than 13 Stick Dog books. The series follows a stray dog and his friends through food-quest adventures. The cartoon-narrator style has made it popular with reluctant readers.
Stick Dog is early-chapter-book level, recommended for readers 6 to 9. The illustrations and conversational narration make it especially popular with kids transitioning from picture books.
Stick Dog was written by Tom Watson, published in 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.
Stick Dog is 224 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Stick Dog takes most readers 3 to 5 hours to finish.
Stick Dog is a standalone novel by Tom Watson, not part of a series.
Stick Dog is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
