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. 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? 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. 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. The Philippa Pearce Memorial Lecture: celebrating excellence in children's literature". Retrieved 18 November 2012.

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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. Collins, Ian (19 February 2021) [23 December 2006]. "Outstanding writer of the 20th century". Eastern Daily Press . Retrieved 12 July 2022. 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).Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. The youngest of four children of a flour miller and corn merchant, Ernest Alexander Pearce, and his wife Gertrude Alice née Ramsden, Philippa Pearce was born in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, and brought up there on the River Cam at the Mill House. Starting school late at the age of eight because of illness, she was educated at the Perse School for Girls in Cambridge, and went on to Girton College, Cambridge on a scholarship to read English and History there. Grove, V. (2010). So Much To Tell. Penguin Books Limited. p.59. ISBN 978-0-670-91908-6 . Retrieved 17 May 2023.

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Although not a prolific writer of full-length books, Pearce continued to work over subsequent years, as well as speaking at conferences, editing anthologies and writing short stories. She attended a 2002 reception for children's authors at Number 10 Downing Street, the home of the Prime Minister. [ citation needed] 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. She died in December, 2006.

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a b c "Carnegie Medal Award". 2007(?). Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). Retrieved 9 July 2012.

So this whole time the dog wasn't even real, so it didn't really mean anything because it was just imaginary. Ezard, John (21 June 2007). "Pullman children's book voted best in 70 years". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 November 2012.

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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 ]

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. 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. I could really relate with Ben wanting a dog as I spent the first 12 years of my life in the same position ( finally succeeded when I persuaded my dad to go and look at a rescue pup being rehomed -love at first sight! The look on my mum's face when we got home said that the joint decision had been to say no! However that dog spent the next 18 years with us and was a truly-loved member of the family.) 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. My goodness. Where to start? I was originally going to give this book 3 stars but then I read the last chapter and I just lost all hope, but lets get to that later.