There's no deus ex machina, contrived kind of stuff here like many children's books have, which is great.

It's a little bit silly, but not really all that funny.

Perhaps the diction is intentionally childlike? But no, then they wouldn't have used the word “congregate.”

If it had some better illustrations, this one might actually be good.

No. You can't leave it like that. You can't let readers think that she actually did get the wish.

Basically just the first day of dog ownership, and you know those kids are going to start slacking off and avoiding their dog-related chores the same way they avoid all their other chores.

This is another book where nothing really gets resolved on a permanent basis. That's the kind of thing that will build into a cycle.

The best part: “'What is booty, Papa?' Asked Sister.”

I was really expecting it to be about Mama and Papa bear realizing that sometimes pushing everybody to do too many things on a long car trip is a bad idea, but no.

Nobody talks like that. When you put it into rhyme like that, it doesn't sound natural.