Mr Dog Series 3 Books Set Collection By Ben Fogle & Steve Cole (Mr Dog and a Hedge Called Hog, Mr Dog and the Seal Deal, Mr Dog and the Rabbit Habit)

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Ben: I’d quite like to leave the world! Space exploration is the next frontier (along with deep sea exploration). I hope I get to travel into space one day! Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. The only way I would recommend Mister Dog is in the " Hey, you want to see a really strange book?" kind of way. I haven't read this to my kids, and I don't plan to. I remember their reaction to But No Elephants. I'm not bringing them down that road again. Ben: My son Ludo and my daughter Iona. They read it at the same time. I was more nervous about them reading the book than anyone else! Then they went to a butcher shop – "to get his poor dog a bone," Crispian said. Now, since Crispin’s Crispian belonged to himself, he gave himself the bone and trotted home with it.

Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well.Ben: I’d be a whale! Imagine having the ocean as your home and being able to travel thousands of miles in any direction! In Mr. Dog: Scary Story of Son you mustn't overlook the large number of objects that you come across on your way, as many of these items will be useful later to open new rooms or passages that let you evade the sinister man. What's more, you also need to be wary of the man's dog that is prowling around the mansion floors, because if he spots you then the game is over. Reveal the secrets of the evil family! Find out why Granny and Grandpa were chasing you and your friends. After you had successfully escaped from Granny and Grandpa and were passing Mr. Dog’s house, you noticed that the fat man had caught one of your friends after all. Mr. Dog is that same policeman, Granny and Grandpa’s son. You’ve got to get inside his mansion and help your friend to escape. Keep in mind, however, that the process is not going to be easy. Mr. Dog’s house is a true prison — and escaping from prison has never been easy. It’s the dead of night, there are no neighbors around, and there is no point in calling the police. But your friend is counting on you to save him! So hurry up! Margaret Wise Brown wrote my favorite childhood book Home For a Bunny. She also wrote Goodnight Moon which is one of my favorite books to read to my kids. Surely I would love a book about Mister Dog the pipe smoking dog who belongs to himself!

Margaret Wise Brown died the same year this was published, and I can’t decide if she was an eccentric genius or a nut-job. She is best known for Goodnight Moon, which was haunting and strange, but Mister Dog is at least a little warmer, thanks to Garth Williams’ fun illustrations. Williams was probably best known for illustrating the classic versions of Charlotte’s Web and the Little House on the Prairie series. Be n: Throughout my adventures I’ve collected so many amazing tales about animals. I’ve tried to bring them to life in the Mr Dog adventures!

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The dog’s name is Crispin’s Crispian. We are told that “he was named Crispin’s Crispian because he belonged to himself”. Okay, so he answers to nobody. An admirable sentiment. But then, if his name is Crispin, why is he called Crispin’s Crispian? Why not Crispin’s Crispin? Where did the “a” come from? And if his name is Crispian, why is he not Crispian’s Crispian? He probably dreamed it up after a session on that pipe.

For all of Margaret Wise Brown’s oddities, I think she knew how to tap into the brain of a child. The word “belong” resonated with me. As a child, I heard it often. I “belonged” to my parents and my friends “belonged” to theirs. “Who does such-and-such belong to?” adults would ask each other. This never sat well with me, for I felt that nobody owned me. This is the child-like mindset Brown exploits (and which Mister Dog then exploits with the little boy). Ben: I think the naked mole rat is pretty weird. They are what I would describe as beautifully ugly!

Yeah, you gotta watch those damn liberals, they’ll move sunset to the morning just to keep the unions happy. It’ll be a two-hour working day. Only Eisenhower will keep the stars in the heavens and the moon in the sky. A vote for Adlai Stevenson is a vote for chaos. That's why I was so happy when I found the book "Mister Dog: The Dog Who Belonged to Himself." It's the story of an independent little mutt who doesn't need others to tell him how to live his life. He strolls around smoking a corn-cob pipe without a care in the world. He even befriends a cigar smoking bunny rabbit...how cute is that?!?!?

We asked YOU to send in questions in for Ben online. Here’s what he had to say! Ben is one of the UK’s leading explorers, adventurers and broadcasters. It seems there are people who are against this book due to the pipe smoking and the fact that a little boy goes home with the dog, etc., etc. It's a 1950's Golden Book with a pipe smoking dog. I'm not sure what folks really expect, but I do know that I expected a nice story at the heart of Mister Dog. Unfortunately, this book was a weird mess with one odd event after another. I wasn't a huge fan of this book as a kid. It was in a large anthology of Little Golden Books. (I have no idea how that anthology came to our family, now that I think of it). I may have been in middle school before I read it.Ben: I once met a street dog in India that the locals called Mr Dog. He was a scraggy mutt but I loved the fact the locals called him Mr!