Hound Dawg

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The guide linked below was created by Debbie Gonzales, MFA. Deb is a career educator, curriculum consultant, former school administrator and adjunct professor, and once served as a SCBWI RA for the Austin Chapter. She's the author of six “transitional” readers for a New Zealand publisher and the forthcoming non-fiction picture book Girls with Guts: The Road to Breaking Barriers and Bashing Records (Charlesbridge, 2019). Deb earned her MFA in writing for children and young adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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Author: Patricia Vermillion

Illustrator: Cheryl Pilgrim

Publisher: Texas Christian University Press

ISBN:  978-0875656151

Synopsis: Hound Dawg is a retelling of The Little Red Hen, southern style. Bessie, Calico, and Penny work their fingers to the bone down on the cotton farm.
But Hound Dawg, he’s a couch potato . . . lazy, lazy, lazy.

Hold on now . . . something has caught Hound Dawg’s eye . . . something that changes his life forever.