For months, Ben Blewitt has been thinking about dogs. So he is very disappointed when, for his birthday, he receives not a dog, but a picture of a dog. But Ben's imagination soon gets to work, and then the strange adventures begin.
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"This was my favourite Puffin book. While I read it decades ago while at school (the cover was different then), I still remember it vividly. I am glad that Ben finally got a real puppy as his best friend." — Lubna (5 out of 5 stars)
"This was my favourite Puffin book. While I read it decades ago while at school (the cover was different then), I still remember it vividly. I am glad that Ben finally got a real puppy as his best friend."
" Fantastic book - excellently well written.... well worth reading, however old you are! "
" Read this yonks ago at junior school (Mrs Linklater got us reading all sorts of brilliant things) and this is a recent charity-shop purchase. "
" At first I was not sure...is this about a boy with a mental problem? what would kids reading this think? But the ending made it all okay. "
" We read this as a class when I was about 10....I have never forgotten it, just a lovely book "
" a good about an ambitious boy who wants a dog more than anything in the world. "
" This book was just AMAZING, It was so heartbraking to finish it. "
Jenny Agutter is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actor in the mid 1960s, starring in the BBC television series The Railway Children and the film adaptation of the same book. She moved on to adult roles with Walkabout, An American Werewolf in London, Logan’s Run, and Equus. Agutter is the winner of two AudioFile Earphones Awards.
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