A Dog So Small (A Puffin Book)

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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. After an accident makes the family re evaluate there lives and think about moving into a cleaner part of London the possibility of keeping one of his grand fathers puppies becomes a reality. However does ben really want a real dog or does he just want the wonderful idea of his chikiteto in his emagination? 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!" Ben wants a dog. Sadly, Ben can’t have a dog. Ben and his family live in London and London is no place for dogs. 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.

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Collins, Ian (19 February 2021) [23 December 2006]. "Outstanding writer of the 20th century". Eastern Daily Press . Retrieved 12 July 2022. 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]

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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. 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.

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Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18099 Openlibrary_editiona b c "Carnegie Medal Award". 2007(?). Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). Retrieved 9 July 2012. urn:lcp:dogsosmall0000pear:epub:63a22533-2dae-4cf8-bea4-ae4cf332ec65 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dogsosmall0000pear Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4xh8dv0n Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780141339436 Nettell, Stephanie (2 January 2007). "Obituary: Philippa Pearce". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 July 2009.

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urn:lcp:dogsosmall0000pear_a2x5:epub:8f6bc6aa-63b7-4199-be14-34374ff08857 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dogsosmall0000pear_a2x5 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9h52cv81 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0140302069 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. 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 ]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 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.