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A Dog So Small
Paperback Edition: 1
A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes.
In A Dog So Small young
Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He's picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library - and he just knows he's going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful thing, and when Ben puts his to work, his adventures really begin!
About the Author:
Philippa Pearce grew up in a millhouse near Cambridge and read English and history at Girton College. She was a scriptwriter-producer for the BBC, a children's book editor and reviewer, a lecturer, a storyteller and freelance writer for radio and newspapers as well as writing some of the best-loved books of the 20th century. She won a Carnegie Medal for Tom's Midnight Garden and a Whitbread Prize for The Battle Of Bubble And Squeak. She died in December, 2006.
Also available in A Puffin Book:
Goodnight Mister Tom and Back Home by Michelle Magorian
Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little And The Trumpet Of The Swan by E. B. White
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Stig Of The Dump by Clive King
Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
A Dog So Small by Philippa Pearce
Gobbolino by Ursula Moray Williams
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
Mrs Frisby and The Rats Of NIMH by Richard C O'brien
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'engle
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Tarka The Otter by Henry Williamson
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Smith by Leon Garfield
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Annie by Thomas Meehan
and The Family From One End Street by Eve Garnett.
Pages : 256
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Publication date : 2014-10-22
Subjects: Fiction, Children's & Young Adult, Children's & Young Adult Fiction, General Fiction (Children's / Young Adult)