Her most famous work is the time slip fantasy novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject.

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Pearce wrote over thirty books, including A Dog So Small (1962), The Squirrel Wife (1971), The Battle of Bubble and Squeak (1978) and The Way To Sattin Shore (1983). However does ben really want a real dog or does he just want the wonderful idea of his chikiteto in his emagination? The Shadow Cage and other tales of the supernatural (1977), Bubble and Squeak, and Sattin Shore were the later three of her four Carnegie Medal runners-up. 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!

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. 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. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. Like there was literally no reason for them to move (except that it was convenient to the plot) The dad was close to his work, the house was nice and big, it was near Ben's school (not that he paid attention anyway because he was too busy thinking of his beloved Chiquitito. 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.

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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. So in the last few chapters of this book Ben finally gets a dog from his grandparents, who's dog has had puppies. 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.Later she wrote and produced schools' radio programmes for the BBC, where she remained for 13 years.

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Meanwhile his gran shows him a picture of a Chihuahua dog so he imagines this dog - Chiqitita - is following him around London. I came across this book as it was a guided reading book for the Year 6 class I work with but I fail to see how they can enjoy reading something like this when the class next door are reading Anthony Horowitz comedies. You will never read a more realistic book about wanting, not getting, wanting some more, getting, not wanting, and, then, finally, wanting. The desire for a pet, a promise broken by a trusting adult are hard and deeply confusing childhood experiences and Pearce captures it all so perfectly here. Whilst others found this book to be charming and/or heartbreaking I found it to be aimless and meandering and I found the protagonist to be selfish, obsessive and a terrible role model to the children who this book is aimed at.And wickedly beautiful asides that capture character in mere seconds: "Ben was outpaced by a man in a bowler hat and dark suit, carrying a briefcase. But the imagination can be a powerful thing, and when Ben puts his to work, his adventures really begin!