Biscuit and the little girl have a stack of valentines to deliver, and a puppy who smells a treat is a puppy with other plans. Big flaps lift across the twenty pages, and what is behind them is the whole joke, which is why this is the Biscuit book that gets read at the table rather than only at bedtime.

Alyssa Satin Capucilli has written Biscuit for a quarter of a century in sentences short enough that a child who is nearly reading can take a turn, and Pat Schories draws the puppy in soft watercolor that has not dated. The story ends on how the little girl shows Biscuit she loves him, which is the part that gets asked for again.

Paperback, twenty pages, published by HarperCollins. Graded by the publisher for four to eight years.