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  For Martha

  Dog is hot.

  Mom is not.

  Go play, Dog.

  Dog is hot.

  Cat is not.

  No way, Dog!

  Dog is hot.

  Pig is not.

  Shoo, shoo, Dog.

  Copyright © 1998 by Molly Coxe. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1998.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Coxe, Molly.

  Hot dog / by Molly Coxe. p. cm.—(Step into reading. A step 1 book)

  SUMMARY: A dog tries to find a way to cool off on a hot summer day on a farm.

  [1. Dogs—Fiction. 2. Farm life—Fiction. 3. Summer—Fiction. 4. Stories in rhyme.]

  I. Title. II. Series: Step into reading. Step 1 book.

  PZ8.3.C8395 Ho 2003 [E]—dc21 2002013561

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  Molly Coxe, Hot Dog

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