A Dog So Small (A Puffin Book)

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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. Ben's reaction, when finally getting his heart's desire, was selfish although perhaps not unrealistic.

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Ever since the moment when Ben’s grandfather whispered conspiratorially of a promise of a for his birthday, Ben has done nothing but dream and imagine the moment.There were about 160 commendations of both kinds in 49 years including five for 1955, three for 1977, three for 1978 and three for 1983 (one highly commended). So in the last few chapters of this book Ben finally gets a dog from his grandparents, who's dog has had puppies. The Shadow Cage and other tales of the supernatural (1977), Bubble and Squeak, and Sattin Shore were the later three of her four Carnegie Medal runners-up.

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I read this of course as an adult and feel perhaps many lovely poignant stories such as this are wasted to a degree on the young. She received the Carnegie Medal for Tom's Midnight Garden in 1958 and the Whitbread Prize for Bubble and Squeak in 1978. Whilst his grandparents live in the country with their own dog, Ben and his large, busy family live a rather bustling life in central London, a short stop away from Big Ben. Ann Philippa Pearce was the youngest of four children of a flour miller and corn merchant, Ernest Alexander Pearce, and his wife Gertrude Alice née Ramsden, who lived at the Mill House by the River Cam in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, where she was brought up.My first comment on "A Dog So Small" is that I am surprised it has gotten such positive reviews on here. 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.

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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?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. I felt quite sorry for Ben's grandfather who clearly wanted to make his grandson happy but was constrained by circumstances. 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. There is a brief crossover with her earlier novel Minnow on the Say if you care about that sort of thing. 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 .