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''Philippa Pearce - one of the finest children''s writers of the 20th century'' - Guardian

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!

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 also published by Puffin Books. She died in December, 2006.

A Dog So Small

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      Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780141355191, 978-0141355191
      ISBN10: 0141355190
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      Book Synopsis

      ''Philippa Pearce - one of the finest children''s writers of the 20th century'' - Guardian

      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!

      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 also published by Puffin Books. She died in December, 2006.

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