Joey and Jet: Book 1 of Their Adventures

by James Yang

While playing fetch with his loyal dog, a young boy throws the ball a bit too far and soon the enthusiastic pet is off on a citywide adventure--tracking its every bounce, roll, and hop along the way before bringing it back.

Genres: Picture Books, Storytime, Dogs, Childrens, Animals

32 pages, Hardcover

Published August 24, 2004

About the author

James Yang is an award-winning artist and designer, and the author of Stop! Bot!, the winner of the 2020 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished American book for beginning readers. His follow up book, A Boy Named Isamu , is the APALA 2022 Honor Title Picture for Asian American literature . He uses pencil sharpeners, pens, and a computer--which is an electronic machine--in his studio. James Yang grew up in Oklahoma, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

[Colorado Buck · Rating 5 out of 5]

boy and dog playing, action-oriented, play-oriented, not many words, the dog chases his ball all around until he eventually gets back with his owner. great use of PREPOSITIONS - can have kids show you under, over, in, out, down, up...etc...

[Melanie Hetrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

A boy and his dog play fetch with a focus on prepositions.

[Syntha Green · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice use of prepositions

[Blair · Rating 3 out of 5]

A book about an owner that throws the ball too far and takes the dog on an adventure. Good book to show readers verbs and prepositions.

[Amy Adams · Rating 2 out of 5]

Joey and Jet by James Yang is ok; not great. The illustrations, according to the book, are digital pen and ink. I don’t know if that means the ink is also digital or not. Also there are some pages that look more like collages. The text was kind of boring. It’s very teach-y. I think the illustrations are cute, and I do like the end of the book when the dog has to go back through everywhere he’s already been.

This might be a cute book for kids who really love dogs, but I don’t think we’d use it for our storytime.

[Jocelyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great use of prepositions. Joey throws the ball and Jet chases it among the birds, through the trees, on the water, down the hill, up the hill, across the street, between the tables, over the roofs, into a hole, out of a hole and back.

[Caroline · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is about a boy, Joey, playing fetch with is dog, Jet. The bulk of this book is how far the ball goes and how Jet runs to get it.

One kid said "That was funny" to another kid after I finished reading this story.

The text is minimal and the pictures are great.

[Marcie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This would be fun to pair with inside out upside down and Bears in the dark both Berenstain books. I ordered it because I liked Joey and Jet in Space.

[Matthew Bell · Rating 1 out of 5]

It wasn't really interesting.

[Casandria · Rating 4 out of 5]

This would work for story time...

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

The perfect text for teaching prepositions.