Modern Fantasy Dog Foods: Compared and Rated

We want to be straight with you up front: despite the category name, none of these are dog foods. The lineup is a set of illustrated children’s books and one nonfiction food-history title, so we compared them as books, not as anything you would feed a dog. Reading the labels accurately is the whole job here. In our evaluation we looked at reading level, humor style, and which young reader each title fits. The Stick Dog series leans into laugh-out-loud middle-grade comedy, the Mal and Chad and Dogzilla titles are graphic and picture-book fun, and one entry is a serious history of food in early modern Europe. We recommend choosing by your reader’s age and whether they want silly illustrated stories or a more grown-up read.