On the last spread, he responds that he does like her hat, and they drive off together into the sunset. She is always wearing a different hat, and until the end of the book, he always replies that he does not like it, and she leaves, disappointed. A presumably male dog (maybe that is in itself sexist?) meets a feminine dog, who asks him if he likes her hat.

Scattered throughout the book are these repeated meetings of two dogs that I have seen people reference on the internet as being subtly sexist.

Most of the dogs aren't 'doing' anything. These aren't even complete sentences, just noun phrases. The second page is: 'Big dog.' The third page is 'Little dog.' Thankfully, it builds a little bit from there, and the next page is, 'Big dogs and little dogs.' More than twice the word count of the previous ones! It's like teaching children how to use plurals. Half of it is opposites and descriptions. This is a very basic book, like 'baby's first book of words' basic. But if I did have this book, it apparently didn't stick in my mind as much as lots of other books I had, like 'Fox in Socks' or 'The Maggie B.' There are just parts of it that seem really familiar, like the part with the different-colored dogs on different-colored trees, and the picture of the dog sitting on top of a house and another dog sitting underneath the house. I think maybe I had this book as a child.

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