Shmoof
by Heidi McKinnon
Interest age: 2 to 5
Published by Albert Street Books, 2025
About this book
Shmoof is a very shmoofy dog. Shmoof is very fluffy, especially after a bath: Shmoof likes to play with a ball, do fancy tricks, and Shmoof is very keen to make friends.
Floof is a very floofy cat. Floof is also very fluffy. However, Floof doesn’t have time for fancy tricks; Floof has very important things to do, which may or may not involve pushing plant pots off tables.
Even though Shmoof would like to make friends, Floof is dead against it – until they find a common enemy: the vacuum cleaner. Banding against the vacuum’s tyrannical reign, Shmoof and Floof find that friendship is possible – and that they may have more in common than they thought.
Heidi McKinnon’s awesomely cute and funny picture book about a very fluffy dog and a very fluffy cat highlights the temperamental differences between cats and dogs in a delightfully cute story, but it’s also a message about finding common ground and making friends.
Featuring words that are fun to say and hilariously charismatic pictures that are full of expression, this gorgeous picture book will be a guaranteed repeat read.
The feud with the vacuum – a necessary evil in a house with two very fluffy pets – will also be relatable for owners of many animals.
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