A Dog So Small (A Puffin Book)

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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! Ezard, John (21 June 2007). "Pullman children's book voted best in 70 years". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 November 2012. A young boy living in London wants a dog so badly, but there's no space for one in the city. It becomes an obsession for him, one that leads to a scary-but-ultimately-okay accident, and then finally he gets his wish, although it doesn't turn out exactly as he had daydreamed it would. urn:lcp:dogsosmall0000pear:epub:63a22533-2dae-4cf8-bea4-ae4cf332ec65 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dogsosmall0000pear Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4xh8dv0n Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780141339436

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. 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)

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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. 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 ] Grove, V. (2010). So Much To Tell. Penguin Books Limited. p.59. ISBN 978-0-670-91908-6 . Retrieved 17 May 2023. 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 this whole time the dog wasn't even real, so it didn't really mean anything because it was just imaginary. 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. 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.