Mouse and His Dog: A Dogtown Book

Name: Mouse and His Dog: A Dogtown Book
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Katherine Applegate
ISBN: 9781250354020

Author: Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko

Series: Dogtown Book #2

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Unabridged: 3 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Young Listeners

Published: 09/17/2024

Categories: Children's Fiction, Animal Stories, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

"Outstanding sound effects, including constant background barking, add atmosphere, as does Mouse's endearing voice and personality."—AudioFile

Mouse and His Dog: A Dogtown Book features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun!

Mouse lives in Dogtown, a shelter for real dogs and robot dogs, where the kibble is plentiful, and the rafters hide a secret community of mice. His unlikely best friend is Buster, a big-hearted real dog who attracts trouble like a burr to fur.

Determined to help Buster find his forever home, even if means losing his best pal, Mouse embarks on a bold quest with three of Dogtown’s “unadoptables”: Determined to help Buster find his forever home, even if means losing his best pal, Mouse embarks on a bold quest with three of Dogtown’s “unadoptables”: Buster; Stewie, a huge, lovable dog whose ex-owner said he was mean; and Smokey, a robot dog hardwired with a smoke alarm he can’t control.

But Mouse is just a mouse, and the world is big and complicated. How’s a little guy supposed to find homes for the dogs he loves?

A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends.

About Katherine Applegate

Katherine Applegate is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of beloved and award-winning books for young readers, including Odder, Home of the Brave, Crenshaw, Wishtree, Willodeen, and The One and Only Ivan, for which she won the Newbery Medal. She is also the author of the Animorphs series, and a beginning reader series, Doggo and Pupper, illustrated by Charlie Alder. Katherine Applegate lives in Southern California with her family.

About Gennifer Choldenko

Gennifer Choldenko’s best known Tales from Alcatraz series has been called “A cornerstone series in contemporary children’s literature.” Al Capone Does My Shirts—the first book in the series—was a Newbery Honor Book and the recipient of twenty other awards. All four books in the series were Junior Library Guild selections and garnered many starred reviews. Gennifer lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her loyal husband and naughty dog.

About Wallace West

Wallace West is a world explorer spending most of his time on the US East Coast (the rest wherever strikes his fancy). He once foolishly pet a wild alligator and considers a tinned-fish picnic in Norway the best meal he's ever had. By day he writes and illustrates, by night he wonders if he should get a pet snake.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christie on September 24, 2024

Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review of Mouse and His Dog, by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko. Katherine Applegate is a favorite in the household for the kiddos and myself and she doesn’t disappoint with Book 2 in the Dogtown books! We h......more

Goodreads review by Hoover Public Library on March 13, 2025

An intrepid mouse tries to help his canine friends find forever homes in this second visit to the Dogtown animal shelter.......more

Goodreads review by whatbooknext on October 13, 2024

At Dogtown, Mouse is to his mouse buddies what Chance used to be to the dogs locked in their cages, (in Book 1). Just like Chance used to sort squabbles and problems for the dogs, Mouse looks after the other mice by stealing kibble from the dogs and small items like bottle tops and mint containers fo......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on October 13, 2024

Writers Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko team up with illustrator Wallace West once again to continue the DogTown series. Mouse continues to star and narrate in this almost realistic fiction set in an animal shelter, but his doggie partner in book 2 is Buster, a warm-hearted Golden Retriev......more

Goodreads review by PumpkinParker on January 23, 2025

I was skeptical when I first learned that the sequel to my beloved Dogtown would focus, not on the dogs I'd come to love, but instead on the aptly named and barely characterized side character Mouse. Yet the longer I read, the more I found myself becoming attached to Mouse — his hidden world within......more

Quotes

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection

Praise for DOGTOWN:

★ "Welcome to Dogtown, a shelter for regular dogs—and robot dogs... Super short chapters, perhaps suggesting a dog’s alleged limited attention span, keep the novel’s pace moving briskly toward a climax sure to please animal lovers despite a few sad moments along the way. West’s grayscale art perfectly captures canine emotion and unbridled energy. "--School Library Journal, starred review

"Newbery Medalist Applegate and Newbery Honoree Choldenko team up for this uplifting escape novel ...Angular b&w line drawings by West highlight the humorously sketched canine cast, while brief chapters that explore species divides promise to captivate anyone who enjoys rooting for a couple of down-on-their-luck dogs getting a second chance."--Publishers Weekly

"The story offers many moments of laughter and reflection, all greatly enhanced by West’s utterly charming grayscale illustrations of irresistible pooches. Eminently readable and appealing; will tug at dog-loving readers’ heartstrings."--Kirkus Reviews