title: Hot Diggity Dog: The History of the Hot Dog
author:  Adrienne Sylver 
description: Grade 13Sylver and Smith have created the perfect browsable title about that quintessential kid food. Full of easily digestible information bites, the book takes a peek at the beginnings of these sausage tubes in ancient Rome, but really gets into the gustatory story when the hot dog hits America's shores in the 19th century. The book also loads up readers with sidebar tidbits that include riddles, stats, hot-dog nomenclature, condiment news, contests, and more. The goofy, full-color retro cartoons match the frenetic pace of the text with food, people, and critters flying, jumping, and careering across the pages. Kids who have a hunger for some facts on hot dogs will definitely want to savor this book.<i>Marge Loch-Wouters, La Crosse Public Library, WI</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: One Hot Summer�s Day
   
  �Do you know,� said Pip, �this is the fourth week of the summer
  holidays - the fourth week, mind - and we haven�t even heard of a
  mystery!�
  �Haven�t even smelt one,� agreed Fatty. �Gosh, this sun is hot.
  Buster, don�t pant so violently - you�re making me feel even
  hotter!�
  Buster crawled into a patch of shade, and lay down with a thump.
  His tongue hung out as he panted. Bets patted him.
  �Poor old Buster! It must be frightful to have to wear a fur coat in
  this weather - one you can�t even unbutton and have hanging
  open!�
  �Don�t suggest such a thing to Buster,� said Fatty. �He�d look
  awful.�
  �Oh dear - it�s too hot even to laugh,� said Daisy, picturing Buster
  trying to undo his coat to leave it open.
  �Here we are - all the Five Find-Outers - and Dog,� said Larry,
  �with nothing to find out, nothing to solve, and eight weeks to do it
  in! Fatty, it�s a waste of the hols. Though even if we had a mystery I
  think I�d be too hot to think about Clues and Suspects and what-