The Great Dog Disaster (Volume 4) - Softcover

Davies, Katie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847385982 ISBN 13: 9781847385987

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's UK, 2012

Synopsis

Suzanne's Great-Great-Aunt Deidra has left her dog to Suzanne's Mum in her will. Suzanne is over-the-moon about having a dog again, after her old dog Barney was 'sent away to a farm' by her Dad. But when Beatrice the Newfoundland arrives, she is a BIG disappointment. She's smelly and old and miserable and doesn't like walks, or catching sticks, or any of the things that dogs are meant to like. So Anna and Suzanne devise a plan to turn Beatrice into a properdog - but if they don't pull it off soon, Suzanne's Dad will send Beatrice away too...

About this title

Product Description:

Great Dog Disaster

Review:

"Intrepid 9-year-olds Anna and Suzanne tackle their latest pet challenge with customary ingenuity, elaborate plans and lists, and allies old (Mr. Tucker and Mrs. Rotherham) and young (Anna's cookie-loving brother, Tom).... Davies doesn't sugarcoat harsh realities; family financial constraints, mendacious parents and intimations of mortality--animal and human--lurk amid the hilarity, lending understated pathos to the proceedings. Shaw's quirky art continues to charm (Miss Matheson's snappy dog is a treat). Characteristically funny, this concludes a British series that has been a breath of fresh middle-grade air."

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's UK
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1847385982
• ISBN 13: 9781847385987
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Illustrator: Shaw Hannah