A Dog So Small (A Puffin Book)

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The book tells the story of dog-obsessed Ben Blewitt who believes he is owed a dog simply because his grandfather half-promises him one. When this wish does not come to fruition Ben compensates by creating an imaginary dog (inspired by a picture his grandparents gave him in place of a real dog) which he sees when he closes his eyes. His imaginary chihuahua is brave and fearless and can fight off thousands of wolves, leap over massive spaces and, most importantly, he can get Ben almost killed which does happen in most of the scenes that best proves how ridiculous Ben is (that and the final couple of chapters which I won't spoil for you but portray Ben as a horrible person). So this whole time the dog wasn't even real, so it didn't really mean anything because it was just imaginary.

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Philippa Pearce OBE (1920-2006) was an English author of children's books. Her most famous work is the time slip fantasy novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Pearce was four further times a commended runner-up for the Medal. A Dog So Small is a dance between London and Cambridge; the story of a boy who quite simply wants a dog. He is desperate for a dog, in that way that we all have been desperate for something at some point in our lives, and he does, eventually, acquire a dog. It is a dog of imagination; something he sees in his mind, something - someone - that he makes happen and live; and this is both good and bad, really, in equal measure. Good, because it fills that desperate ache inside of him but bad, too, because of how it affects him. Sometimes the imaginary world is comfier, safer, than the real.Although not a prolific writer of full-length books, Pearce continued to work over subsequent years, as well as speaking at conferences, editing anthologies and writing short stories. She attended a 2002 reception for children's authors at Number 10 Downing Street, the home of the Prime Minister. [ citation needed] a b c "Carnegie Medal Award". 2007(?). Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). Retrieved 9 July 2012. Overall, I enjoyed the beginning but honestly, to end the book with the main character being selfish, bratty, uncaring, snobby it just made me lose any sort of respect I had for him. In 1951 Pearce spent a long period in hospital recovering from tuberculosis. She passed the time there thinking about a canoe trip she had taken many years before, which became the inspiration for her first book, Minnow on the Say, published in 1955 with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. It was a commended runner-up for the annual Carnegie Medal. It was adapted for television in Canada as a 1960 TV series with the original title, and for British television in 1972 as Treasure over the Water. Grove, V. (2010). So Much To Tell. Penguin Books Limited. p.59. ISBN 978-0-670-91908-6 . Retrieved 17 May 2023.

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urn:lcp:dogsosmall0000pear_a2x5:epub:8f6bc6aa-63b7-4199-be14-34374ff08857 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dogsosmall0000pear_a2x5 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9h52cv81 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0140302069I would have given it 3 stars if in the end he was crying about how happy he was because he finally had a dog. A Dog So Small' is about the inner life of a boy, an inner life that is more rel to him the the rumbustious life that is going on around him...." ~ Elaine Moss