a] Like several of her subsequent books, it was inspired by the area where she had grown up: the villages of Great and Little Shelford became Great and Little Barley. Ben is keen for a dog and hopes that he'll get one for his Birthday after being promised one from his grandfather however when his birthday arrives he does not get the real thing but just a picture.

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Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Ben even took the dog off the lead and told him to go because he didn't want him anymore - because he wasnt the marvelous Chicken-whatsits name. Philippa Pearce grew up in a millhouse near Cambridge and read English and history at Girton College. I could hardly put this book down and was thankful it was a youth's book and could be read in a short span of time.Ben wants a dog, he has lived and dreamed of one for his birthday so long from his grandparents but instead he gets a picture of a dog so in desperation and disappointment he conjures an imaginary dog named Chiquitito until it becomes his consuming obsession, seeing this dog everywhere. She received the Carnegie Medal for Tom's Midnight Garden in 1958 and the Whitbread Prize for Bubble and Squeak in 1978.

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The youngest of four children of a flour miller and corn merchant, Ernest Alexander Pearce, and his wife Gertrude Alice née Ramsden, Philippa Pearce was born in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, and brought up there on the River Cam at the Mill House. She won a Carnegie Medal for TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN and a Whitbread Prize for THE BATTLE OF BUBBLE AND SQUEAK. She attended a 2002 reception for children's authors at Number 10 Downing Street, the home of the Prime Minister. There is nothing wrong with cultivating and protecting the child within you, in fact I recommend it. Ann Philippa Pearce OBE FRSL (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books.The book teaches important lessons about acceptance and love without ever preaching and the story is engaging to the end. It is tough being a middle child and more so when the age between your two older sisters or two younger brothers is great.