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!
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Grade 3-6-Ben Blewitt yearns for a dog of his own, yet for his birthday he receives just a picture of a dog. However, the picture sends his imagination into overdrive, and Ben ends up experiencing some unusual adventures. The happy ending with the Blewitts moving to a new home with room for a real dog will please pet lovers. The story by Philippa Pearce (Lippincott, 1962) is set in London, and narrator Jenny Agutter's British accent will entertain American listeners. Ben's longing, his grandfather's regret, and his father's pragmatism all come through in the voices Agutter employs in this well-crafted audio version. Purchasing a new copy of the book in the U.S. that is not large print version will be a challenge.
Judy Czarnecki, Chippewa River District Library System, Mt. Pleasant, MI
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Judy Czarnecki, Chippewa River District Library System, Mt. Pleasant, MI
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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.
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Young Tilly, Uncle Willy, North London, Little Barley, Hampstead Heath, Great Barley, Yellow Salden, Charlie Forrester, Granny Fitch, Christmas Eve, Public Library, Union Jack, Liverpool Street Station, Bob Moss, Old Tilly, Ben Blewitt, Grandpa Fitch Browse Sample Pages:
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- La fantaisie dans les recits pour la jeunesse en Grande-Bretagne de 1918 a 1968 (French Edition) by Monique Chassagnol on page 46, and Back Matter
- Read All About It!: Great Read-Aloud Stories, Poems, and Newspaper Pieces for Preteens and Teens by Jim Trelease on page 235
- Teaching and Learning Literacy: Reading and Writing Texts for a Purpose by David Wray on page 21
- Potent Fictions: Children's Literacy and the Challenge of Popular Culture by Mary Hilton on page 107
- Kingfisher Treasury of Classic Stories by Michael Morpurgo in Back Matter
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