Great news! We’re thrilled to announce that Michael Clay Thompson’s Poodle and the Blue Desert Dunes has joined the first three Poodle books as a Mom’s Choice Gold Award winner! Across the globe, parents, educators, retailers, and members of the media rely on the MCA Mother-and-Child Honoring Excellence seal of approval as their trusted guide for selecting high-quality products and services for children and families.

The MCA evaluators generously volunteer their time, upholding a strict code of ethics that ensures expert and objective analysis, free from any manufacturer association. They score items based on criteria such as production quality, design, educational value, entertainment value, originality, appeal, and cost.

Poodle and the Blue Desert Dunes takes young readers on a journey through a vast desert, across time and space to learn about prepositions and prepositional phrases. Phrases are the third level of grammar analysis in the MCT language arts curriculum, and prepositional phrases are the easiest to learn, which makes them ideal for children ages 6-9 who are just embarking on their grammar journey.

This picture book, like all of the other Poodle books, is masterfully crafted by Michael and gorgeously illustrated by artist Christopher Tice, and it features QR codes that allow kids to hear Michael narrate the story. And like the other books in the series, it offers children a level of intellectual sophistication that goes well beyond learning grammar to issues that challenge their perceptions of reality, illusion, and art. It is a brilliant, funny, beautiful way for children to learn grammar!

Order your complete set of Poodle books today, and check out our listing on the Mom’s Choice Awards site!