Such a cute little book! Ellie the wiener dog is back! And this time, she's trying new things and learning to enjoy them. This book has gorgeous and engaging illustrations, full of color and life. Children will love it, as will their parents and grandparents.

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The story did not resonate with me and I do not feel it will be well received in my library. The illustrations were cute and enjoyable.

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A fun, rhyming, delightfully-illustrated, humorous tale. Ellie the Wienerdog is petrified. Her imagination runs wild as she pictures dreadful underwater scenarios--denizens of the deep--sharks and other scary creatures seem foreboding, Why is she being forced to swim? She's a dog, right? Dogs do sitting and staying--not swimming.

Ultimately (of course), Ellie finds herself swimming--and enjoying it. The lesson: anything is possible. Maybe now she'll try to teach a fish to sit. Adorable. A book your children will want to read over and over again. This one's a keeper!

Ellie is a wiener dog learning the life lessons that preschoolers generally need to know. The artwork is colorful and attention grabbing for youngsters, and the words are easy for them to grasp. In this book, she has to overcome her fear of getting wet to learn to swim. In both books of the series, she struggles to do what is expected of her and to get over her fears and finds that it isn't as difficult as she thought it would be. This is great for preschoolers, who can absorb the message of the books and hopefully learn from them, too.

I loved Ellie! She's funny, cute and brave. She's real and witty and her message is one of self confidence. I wouldn't hesitate to read this to a child.

It can be very hard to swim, and more so when your a long bodied dog breed. You have to read this to see what happens on Ellie's adventure as she is watched over by her family.

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Love the bright, fun illustrations and a real story that mirrors chidren's real fears! My grandkids loved it!

We are introduced to Ellie who is scared to swim and she learns that it isn't too hard to do in a life jacket and that she is safe. Though she voices her fears of being a delicious treat to what is below. A and I had a good time laughing as Ellie learned there was nothing bad about being in the water.
I did like how we are shown the different fears that Ellie has imagined in her mind yet there is really nothing to be afraid of. We do that as humans as well, we overthink things and sometimes there is nothing to be scared of. It did really open up a discussion for me to explain to A about being scared and how to overcome being scared.
I would suggest that the publisher or author check out the formatting as reading on the kindle some words were jumbled together. Also I felt that there was no need to repeat some of the words on the pages. As far as pictures went they were very bright and went well with the story being told.

This series is enjoyable. Ellie is a cute and fun character.

Another fun Ellie story! Kids will appreciate Ellie's anxiety over swimming, and cheer for her as she rises to the challenge. A great book to kick off a discussion about overcoming fears.

This book is a good one to read to all children, but especially those afraid of trying new things...

Ellie, our favorite dachshund, is back in her second book. This time around she tells us that it is hard to swim because she is meant to be on dry land. The first page shows her underwater with her cheeks puffed out from holding her breath. She lists all the things she doesn't have such as fins and scales, and we see her being sent aloft on the plume of water from a whale's blowhole. But all of this is just to let us know what is coming. Her human approaches with a doggie life vest and Ellie leans against the dock with her paw to her forehead like a classic damsel in distress. She imagine that she might simply sink and no one will ever be able to find her. The creatures she pictures in this calm little body of water include fierce looking fish, a seahorse with fangs, a shark with a dinner table and napkin just waiting for a meal, even a fish with a fork. As her human lowers her toward the water she holds her paws to her chattering teeth, then calls out, "GOODBYE! I'm going in !" (Talk about drama.) Soon she is trying out different strokes across and even under the water and having a good time, while smiling fish watch.

Even though Ellie is a dog and not a child, it is still easy to learn from her example. She builds up so many possible dangers in her imagination, then finds out how much fun swimming can be. At the end of the day she is wagging her tail and saying that "if you give it a try, you can do anything you wish!" Those fish that she was so afraid would eat her are now smiling and holding up score cards like Olympic judges to praise her swimming. She even decides that since she learned to swim, maybe she can teach the fish to sit. The scene of Miss Ellie's classroom with the puffer fish upside down, the shark with a bite missing from its desk, and the goldfish beaming as it perches on a chair in its fishbowl helps young readers imagine what would happen if the fish could come onto land to learn a new skill.

Although this story shows Ellie learning to swim, the lesson could easily apply to any new situation that is making someone nervous. She shows that things are not nearly as bad as we imagine them to be, and that once you give something a try you usually find it to be much easier than you thought.

This is my first book by this author.  Ethan and I loved the illustrations, which were so colorful.  Good story about being afraid to learn to swim. But, Ellie is put into the water with a life vest on and off she goes to explore.  I think this is a good lesson for kids to not to be afraid to try new things.  We can be afraid, but not to let fear control us.

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I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.
Recommend this book? Yes! Author? Yes!
Read more from this author? Yes!

Happy Reading!
Melissa

I received this ARC from Netgalley for an honest review.
Ellie the wiener dog has returned and this time it's for an adventure in water. Ellie knows she safe on land, but when they put a life jacket on her she knows she will drop straight to the bottom. There will be weird fish and sharks holding out their dinner plates. Once she drops in the water, it will be all over. In she goes, but wait she floats and she loves it.

Ellie is back again and this book is even cuter than the last one. This time, they are taking her down to the lake to swim. Ellie has a really good imagination...

Open Door Press and Net Galley allowed me to read this book for review (thank you). It's been published, so you can grab a copy now.

Ellie purple with orange accents. She has huge eyes. And she's afraid of the water. She imagines all kinds of hazards and dangers. She thinks dogs should just stay with their feet planted on the ground. After all, no one trains fish to sit!

Ellie's people put her in a safety vest before they put her in the water. She finds out it can be FUN to swim. She also finds out you can do more than you think you can, you just have to try. That's a life skill all of us can use.

I'd buy this book just for the illustrations but the story line is good, too. You can go far in life, just try!

I love books that can incorporate rhyming into the story. This little tale is funny and fun to read, particularly aloud. Of course, the book has its little lesson about encouraging kids to try new things because what other way can we discover new ways to enjoy life. So, the book is a little treasure that teachers can actually use for light discussion over a topic that may be a little difficult for young kids as some of them do not want to try out new food, new activities, new books, etc. I also like that the book is deep in thought, but it is not overwhelming in detail; readers can connect to it through different levels and still have a good time reading it. Great book!

This is such a nice book and my five year old is smitten with it. My son loves wiener-dogs, he has a stuffed one, that has to go everywhere he goes too, so it's no wonder he took to Ellie, but she's just soo cute! Also he doesn't speak English (we're from Austria) and I had to translate the text for him the first time we read it, but he also likes me to read it to him in English because he likes the rhyme and the rhythm of it. And he's even contemplating to learn to swim, although he is quite as feared of water as Ellie is at first.

A Charming dog that is afraid of the water and has all kind of horrible thoughts it will be if he has to go into the water. He must know that his moment is coming and as it does he finds out that all is fun and wonderful. A great book for any child fearing the unknown.

Fun book to read with kids. Great illistrations. Interesting to read about her fears of swimming but then she conquered the fear. Would recommend this book.

I was barely able to read the Kindle ARC of this book. The illustrations looked cute, but the beginning of the dog's monologue there was lots of mention of the "bad" things in the water. I think that would just put more ideas of things to be afraid of in my young grandson's mind.

I don't think this issue shows the final format of this book and so I won't publish a review because I don't think I'm seeing the finished product. Thank you for the opportunity