Line #7 Literature/StickDog


1	[[quoteright:268:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stick_dog.jpg]]
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3	''Stick Dog'' is a [[ChildrensLiterature Children's Book]] Series by Tom Watson.
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5	The series follows Stick Dog, who's called that because of the very simplistic boxy style in which he's drawn, which includes stick limbs because the author admits he doesn't know how to draw. He lives in an empty pipe out by highway 16 and sleeps upon an old couch cushion he fished out from behind a store.
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7	And that's how he likes it.
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9	Stick Dog and his friends, which include Poo-Poo the Poodle, Karen the Dachshund, Stripes the Dalmation, and Mutt the... mutt, usually spend their days getting together for some humble goal or other, which usually revolves around finding food.
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11	So far, there are twelve books in the series.
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13	* ''Stick Dog'' (December 2012)
14	* ''Stick Dog Wants A Hot Dog'' (October 2013)
15	* ''Stick Dog Chases A Pizza'' (July 2014)
16	* ''Stick Dog Dreams Of Ice Cream'' (May 2015)
17	* ''Stick Dog Tries To Take The Donuts'' (January 2016)
18	* ''Stick Dog Slurps Spaghetti'' (October 2016)
19	* ''Stick Dog Craves Candy'' (July 2017)
20	* ''Stick Dog Crashes A Party'' (March 2018)
21	* ''Stick Dog Gets The Tacos'' (December 2018)
22	* ''Stick Dog Meets His Match'' (September 2020)
23	* ''Stick Dog Takes Out Sushi'' (February 2021)
24	* ''Stick Dog Comes To Town'' (September 2021)
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27	!!''Stick Dog'' contains examples of:
28	* BlackBeadEyes: Most humans in the books are drawn with little black dot eyes.
29	* BlackDotPupils: As part of the series' StylisticSuck look, all of the dogs are drawn with their eyes in this manner.
30	* CallBack: A number of them in the series.
31	* ChristmasEpisode: "Stick Dog Comes To Town".
32	* {{Crossover}}: "Stick Dog Crashes A Party" has ''Literature/StickCat'' aid the dogs in their mission to get food from the wedding reception.
33	* CuteKitten: In "Stick Dog Chases A Pizza", Stripes gets distracted by seeing two small paws in the passenger seat of a truck. Upon seeing they belong to a kitten, she immediately becomes enamoured with it and wants to make it a part of their group. [[spoiler:Then she finds out the kitten belongs to a truck driver, and is disappointed to have to say goodbye to it.]]
34	* DogsHateSquirrels: In the first book, Poo-Poo gets distracted from the group's mission to get hamburgers from a picnicing family by a squirrel in a tree, who even throws an acorn at him.
35	* ExactWords: At the end of the book, the dogs find a bucket full of lollipops telling trick-or-treaters to "please take one". Everyone does take one. [[spoiler:One lollipop for most of them, and one bucket full of lollipops for Poo-Poo.]]
36	* HalloweenEpisode: Book 7, Stick Dog Craves Candy, is set on Halloween Night.
37	* HammerspaceHair: Mutt tends to store things in his fur. Whenever he shakes himself, a lot of stuff comes out of it.
38	* HumbleGoal: The objective of the books is for Stick Dog and co. to get food.
39	* IronicName: One of the characters is a Dalmation named Stripes.
40	* NoodleIncident: In the first book, Stripes reveals she used to be a guard dog at a mall. But that ended with "The Nacho Cheese Grande Incident".
41	* ProtagonistTitle: Stick Dog is the protagonist of the series.
42	* ScoobyStack: Stick Dog and his friends do one in Chapter 9 of "Stick Dog Wants A Hot Dog".
43	* TheSmartOne: Stick Dog is this among his group.
44	* SommelierSpeak: Poo-Poo is prone to doing this whenever he tastes something new in the books.
45	* StylisticSuck: The books are drawn in a primitive stick figure style. All the dogs, despite being different species, all have the same boxy body type.
46	* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: The female dog characters all have eyelashes. Not so much the males.
47	* UseYourHead: Poo-Poo is fond of headbutting things. When Stick Dog finally asks him why he does it, Poo-Poo says it's because he enjoys when the pain stops.
48	* WeddingEpisode: "Stick Dog Crashes A Party".

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