A Dog So Small (A Puffin Book)

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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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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.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-04-23 05:00:34 Associated-names Maitland, Antony, 1935- Boxid IA40093723 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier 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. Pearce married Martin Christie in 1962. They had one daughter, who became a children's author herself, as Sally Christie. [11] Martin Christie, who had never wholly recovered from being a Japanese prisoner of war, died in 1964. From 1973 until her death from complications of a stroke in 2006, Philippa Pearce lived once again in Great Shelford, down the lane where she was raised. [12] [13] Legacy [ edit ] 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 ] The Philippa Pearce Memorial Lecture: celebrating excellence in children's literature". Retrieved 18 November 2012.

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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.

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So to start off, Ben (our main character) really wants a dog. He gets a cross stitch chihuahua which has been passed down his family, for his birthday. After this he keeps imagining that this chihuahua, which he calls 'Chiquitito' is with him. It becomes his everything, he is obsessed with this imaginary dog as he can't have a real one. This even led him to step out onto a road... with his eyes closed.

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This is exactly how I felt. This was one of the most private stories I've ever read. Philippa Pearce gives us, the readers, this rare privilege of *seeing* inside young Ben's mind and heart to his deepest feelings and longings, to the extent that you feel it is not your place to pass that on other than to simply say, "READ THIS BOOK!" urn:lcp:dogsosmall0000pear_a2x5:epub:8f6bc6aa-63b7-4199-be14-34374ff08857 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dogsosmall0000pear_a2x5 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9h52cv81 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0140302069 Grove, V. (2010). So Much To Tell. Penguin Books Limited. p.59. ISBN 978-0-670-91908-6 . Retrieved 17 May 2023. In 1951 Pearce spent a long period in hospital recovering from tuberculosis. She passed the time there thinking about a canoe trip she had taken many years before, which became the inspiration for her first book, Minnow on the Say, published in 1955 with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. It was a commended runner-up for the annual Carnegie Medal. It was adapted for television in Canada as a 1960 TV series with the original title, and for British television in 1972 as Treasure over the Water.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) 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