Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slippers At Home | 2004 | Andrew Clements | Buy |
| 2 | Naptime For Slippers | 2004 | Andrew Clements | Buy |
| 3 | Slippers at School | 2005 | Andrew Clements | Buy |
| 4 | Slippers Loves to Run | 2006 | Andrew Clements | Buy |
Slippers is a puppy who belongs to a family with two children, Laura and Edward, and he has a lot of opinions about daily life. The four picture books in this series follow him through situations that will feel familiar to any young child: figuring out where he fits in at home, sneaking into a backpack to go to school, resisting naptime, and running off to explore. Illustrator Janie Bynum gives Slippers an expressive face that makes his reactions easy to read even for the youngest audience.
Andrew Clements wrote the series for picture book age, roughly toddlers through early elementary, and the books work well as read-alouds. The humor is gentle and physical, the kind that comes from a dog’s baffled take on human rules and routines. Slippers is not a troublemaker exactly, just a dog following his instincts into situations that the humans around him find inconvenient.
The four titles, Slippers at Home, Slippers at School, Naptime for Slippers, and Slippers Loves to Run, form a loose series that can be read in any order. Each book is self-contained, though the family and setting remain consistent throughout, giving young readers the comfort of returning to familiar characters.