A Dog So Small (A Puffin Book)

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Pearce wrote over thirty books, including A Dog So Small (1962), The Squirrel Wife (1971), The Battle of Bubble and Squeak (1978) and The Way To Sattin Shore (1983). In 1958, she left the BBC to work as an editor for the Clarendon Press before becoming a children's book editor at Andre Deutsch two years later.

A Dog So Small - Penguin Books UK A Dog So Small - Penguin Books UK

I thought this was a good story to teach children that what you expect is not always what you get however can still be just as enjoyible. While I read it decades ago while at school (the cover was different then), I still remember it vividly. She won a Carnegie Medal for TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN and a Whitbread Prize for THE BATTLE OF BUBBLE AND SQUEAK.

The youngest of four children of a flour miller and corn merchant, Ernest Alexander Pearce, and his wife Gertrude Alice née Ramsden, Philippa Pearce was born in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, and brought up there on the River Cam at the Mill House. Meanwhile his gran shows him a picture of a Chihuahua dog so he imagines this dog - Chiqitita - is following him around London. I remember reading the as a child, and again in my teens, and then again as a young adult - I just explained the storyline to my partner some 20 years later and it still bought a tear to my eye . I liked the fact that the ending of the book was not all nicely tied up and stayed true to ben's uncertainty as a character.

A Dog So Small - Philippa Pearce - Google Books A Dog So Small - Philippa Pearce - Google Books

He had walked from Tooting and was going to his office in the City, where he liked to be at his desk by half past eight in the morning. The characters are unlikeable (all but the grandfather, who's a delight), and Ben's pouting and obsessing over a dog quickly became tedious.Through the story of Ben's longing for a dog, the author has presented a vivid and accurate account of being a child in the early 1960s. A slim, tight story that gives so much more than it suggests, A Dog So Small always feels rather Tardis like to me. The lecturers are children's literature authors, scholars or critics, and most of the lectures are published online. 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. Martin Christie, who had never wholly recovered from being a Japanese prisoner of war, died in 1964.