Go, Dog. Go!
book by P. D. Eastman
Go, Dog. Go! is a 1961 children's book written and illustrated by P. D. Eastman. It describes the actions and interactions of a group of highly mobile dogs, who operate cars and other conveyances in pursuit of work, play, and a final mysterious goal: a dog party.
Publication
Following its success in publishing The Cat in the Hat in 1957, Random House launched the imprint Beginner Books the following year for early reader books. P. D. Eastman published Are You My Mother? with Beginner Books in 1960, followed by Go, Dog. Go! in 1961.
Plot
The dogs featured in the book use their cars to help them get their work done and get to places.
“Go, Dog. Go!” enters the record as book by P. D. Eastman. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what book and Eastman can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16385821. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961, 1957 and 1960.
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