Bill Hutchinson

Does Doo-Doo* mean what I think it means?
Review of the Your Nickel's Work Publishing paperback edition (January 10, 2022).

I read this book as part of my participation in a jury for the 2023 Saskatchewan Book Awards. It isn't fair at all that a children's picture book should be in a competition with literary essays, genre fiction and poetry, but such is the nature of awards which are geographically based.

Regardless of that, I found this book to be quite entertaining and humorous, and I actually enjoyed it more than some of the adult fiction books which I read. I couldn't quite convince the other jury members to get it into our final shortlist though.

I obtained a free copy of this book through the Saskatchewan Book Awards where it was a nominee for the City of Regina Award, for which I participated in a jury of 3 readers. We agreed to embargo our participation and opinions until after the Award Announcements on May 4, 2023.

Footnote
* I know that there are dogs called Doodles, so perhaps that is what is meant here. Doo-doo has an entirely different connotation in my mind though, and that was accentuated by the fact that the aliens in this story required... ahem😳 ... excrement in order to power their spaceship.… (más)