Graphic Novel

Title: Dog Man


Author/Illustrator: Dav Pilkey


Publisher: Graphix


Publication Date: 2016


ISBN: 978-0-545-58160-8


     “Dog Man” is a fictional book about a dog man that fights crime and is constantly saving the city. He is typically protecting the city from Petey the evil cat and his schemes. There are many different crazy things going on in each chapter that he has to protect the city from in order to keep the reader guessing. It even tries to acknowledge how important reading is. I think this book has important lessons included in it like how important it is to read and how important it is to be a good person. However, I myself did not enjoy the book because it was childish.


     I would give this book a three out of five stars. This would be a good book for young children because it will hold their interest and it will capture their interest in reading. It is a good book for new readers that are starting off because the vocabulary is not very advanced. There are also a lot of pictures to keep their attention because it is a graphic novel, and the humor that is used is the kind that young children find amusing. However I would not use this book for the purpose of classroom instruction because there are a lot of grammatical errors and a lot of misspelling of words.