This book is a way to teach children to spell words out loud when they see hyphens in between the letters. The Wiener Dog Book is written so as to help children understand why we spell words sometimes when we want to refrain from speaking the word. It also can help a child who is learning to read aloud to spell a word when they see the hyphen between the letters. This is a sweet book about the Wiener Dogs going on a W-A-L-K, and about the many things that we will spell instead of say to them so they don't get too excited