A Dog So Small (A Puffin Book)

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Pearce wrote over 30 books, including A Dog So Small (1962), Minnow on the Say, (1955), The Squirrel Wife (1971), The Battle of Bubble and Squeak (1978) and The Way To Sattin Shore (1983). The Shadow Cage and other tales of the supernatural (1977), Minnow on the Say, Bubble and Squeak, and Sattin Shore were all Carnegie Medal runners-up. The Battle of Bubble and Squeak inspired a two-part television adaptation in Channel 4's Talk, Write and Read series of educational programming. 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.

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I would have given it 3 stars if in the end he was crying about how happy he was because he finally had a dog. Overall, I enjoyed the beginning but honestly, to end the book with the main character being selfish, bratty, uncaring, snobby it just made me lose any sort of respect I had for him. The Philippa Pearce Memorial Lecture: celebrating excellence in children's literature". Retrieved 18 November 2012. So in the last few chapters of this book Ben finally gets a dog from his grandparents, who's dog has had puppies. (He can get a dog now because his parents have convienetly moved into a flat where there is lots of green space)Honestly, I have no idea why he is allowed a dog. This child should NOT be responsible for a dog AT ALL. He's just a selfish, boring, boring character. So this whole time the dog wasn't even real, so it didn't really mean anything because it was just imaginary. 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_edition 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

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The book tells the story of dog-obsessed Ben Blewitt who believes he is owed a dog simply because his grandfather half-promises him one. When this wish does not come to fruition Ben compensates by creating an imaginary dog (inspired by a picture his grandparents gave him in place of a real dog) which he sees when he closes his eyes. His imaginary chihuahua is brave and fearless and can fight off thousands of wolves, leap over massive spaces and, most importantly, he can get Ben almost killed which does happen in most of the scenes that best proves how ridiculous Ben is (that and the final couple of chapters which I won't spoil for you but portray Ben as a horrible person).

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But after Ben spends the WHOLE book doing literally nothing except thinking about a dog of his own. He cries because this new dog, Brown, Is not the Chihuahua of his imagination. What a spoiled child! You've spent the whole book wanting a dog, and here you are, with a dog! And now you don't want it because its not the dog you wanted. Ezard, John (21 June 2007). "Pullman children's book voted best in 70 years". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 November 2012. In 2004 Pearce published her first new full-length book for two decades, The Little Gentleman. One further children's novel was published posthumously in 2008: A Finder's Magic. [10] Personal life [ edit ] Nettell, Stephanie (2 January 2007). "Obituary: Philippa Pearce". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 July 2009.

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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? Collins, Ian (19 February 2021) [23 December 2006]. "Outstanding writer of the 20th century". Eastern Daily Press . Retrieved 12 July 2022.Ben is keen for a dog and hopes that he'll get one for his Birthday after being promised one from his grandfather however when his birthday arrives he does not get the real thing but just a picture. When he realises he can't keep a dog in London he starts to create a dog so small that only he can see. That is when adventures begin. 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. [5] She started school only at the age of eight because of illness, then she went on to attend the Perse School for Girls in Cambridge and win a scholarship to Girton College, Cambridge to read English and History. Another weird thing was that Ben's parents wanted to move house because... it was too big. Like there was literally no reason for them to move (except that it was convenient to the plot) The dad was close to his work, the house was nice and big, it was near Ben's school (not that he paid attention anyway because he was too busy thinking of his beloved Chiquitito. 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). 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. [4] [a] The Battle of Bubble and Squeak inspired a two-part television adaptation in Channel 4's Talk, Write and Read series of educational programming. Grove, V. (2010). So Much To Tell. Penguin Books Limited. p.59. ISBN 978-0-670-91908-6 . Retrieved 17 May 2023.