PUFFIN MCL : A DOG SO SMALL PB A FORMAT – MRS PHILIPPA PEARCE

Philippa Pearce – one of the finest children s writers of the 20th century – Guardian In A DOG SO SMALL young Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He s picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library – and he just knows he s going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful thing, and when Ben puts his to work, his adventures really begin! 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 also published by Puffin Books. She died in December, 2006.