The Invisible Dog - Hardcover

King-Smith, Dick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517594242 ISBN 13: 9780517594247

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1993

Synopsis

Events conspire to turn Janie's imaginary harlequin Great Dane into a real dog.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Illustrated in black-and-white. When her parents can't afford a new pet, seven-year-old Janie invents one. Her new pretend dog is Henry, an invisible Great Dane who eats invisible food bought with invisible money. Then some mysterious events--and perhaps a touch of magic--bring the invisible Henry to life.

About the Author:

Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. He wrote a great number of children's books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry's Mad, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, The Invisible Dog, The Queen's Nose and The Crowstarver. At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children's Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0517594242
• ISBN 13: 9780517594247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 73