A Dog So Small (A Puffin Book)

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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 I wanted to like this book, indeed I expected to like this book. Ben is a young boy living in London who longs for a dog. But his family live in rather cramped conditions already and there's no easy solution. I didn't take to this book especially, although some parts were sweet. I was left incensed by the ending! Ben wants a dog. Sadly, Ben can’t have a dog. Ben and his family live in London and London is no place for dogs.

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When his family suddenly moves to near Hampstead Heath the possibility arises that Ben could have a real dog, maybe Brown, from a litter of pups. But does he want a real dog, or does he want Chiqitita? So Many Hearts! Handstamped Pet ID Tag • Personalized Pet/Dog ID Tag • Dog Collar Tag • Custom Engraved Cat Tag Nettell, Stephanie (2 January 2007). "Obituary: Philippa Pearce". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 July 2009. This was a story of a boy wanting his hearts desire however when the reality is not what he hoped for can he learn to live with what he ends up with? Meanwhile his gran shows him a picture of a Chihuahua dog so he imagines this dog - Chiqitita - is following him around London. Poor, lonely Ben, with no friends, takes to riding the Tube all day, walking the streets, alone but for his dog so small that nobody else can see it. Obviously nobody should do this today, it would be very dangerous, and the story was written decades ago.The other day I found it. The story remains captivating and charming even to an adult. The characters are well drawn - all flawed, some unpleasant but all doing their best to care for their family members. 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. Read more Details After an accident makes the family re evaluate there lives and think about moving into a cleaner part of London the possibility of keeping one of his grand fathers puppies becomes a reality. However does ben really want a real dog or does he just want the wonderful idea of his chikiteto in his emagination? It is tough being a middle child and more so when the age between your two older sisters or two younger brothers is great. Your place in the family is unstable; you’re searching for someone or something to just help you fit in and to share your life with. So when the day comes for Ben to receive his gift from his grandparents, his heart is broken and trust shattered when he only receives a woven image of a Chihuahua in a frame. The fact dawns on him that he will never own a dog because it’d be too big for the house and central London is no place to raise a large dog. So what does Ben do? He imagines a dog so small that only he can see it, play with it and care for it. But in becoming so engrossed in imagining this creature, Ben loses touch with the real world and a tragic accident happens which calls on the family to consider everyone’s futures.

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The Philippa Pearce Memorial Lecture: celebrating excellence in children's literature". Retrieved 18 November 2012. So I had read most of this book and was getting near the end, and I was thinkig that the ending was going to be a nice,sweet, happy ending. But oh no. Grove, V. (2010). So Much To Tell. Penguin Books Limited. p.59. ISBN 978-0-670-91908-6 . Retrieved 17 May 2023. Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18099 Openlibrary_edition Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-AS-2000004 Openlibrary_editionI can't help but quote Elaine Moss, the editor who wrote the afterward in my Puffin publication of this lovely book. She gave the manuscript of this book to a nine-year-old boy named Charlie to read, after he finished reading it he said, "I loved the story, but I'm not sure if I'll tell my friends, because I don't want to have to talk about it with anyone." After gaining her degree, Pearce moved to London, where she found work as a civil servant. Later she wrote and produced schools' radio programmes for the BBC, where she remained for 13 years. She was a children's editor at the Oxford University Press from 1958 to 1960 and at the André Deutsch publishing firm from 1960 to 1967. Pearce's second book was Tom's Midnight Garden, published in 1958. Its "midnight garden" was based directly on the garden of the Mill House where Pearce was raised. The novel inspired a film, a stage play and three TV versions. It won the annual Carnegie Medal and for the 70th anniversary celebration in 2007, a panel named it one of the top ten Medal-winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite. Tom's Midnight Garden finished second in the vote from that shortlist, between two books that were about 40 years younger.