Dogger (book)

Dogger

Front cover of unknown edition
Author Shirley Hughes
Illustrator Shirley Hughes
Cover artist Hughes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Children's picture book
Publisher Bodley Head
Publication date
 1977
Pages 32 pp
ISBN 978-0-370-30006-1
OCLC 4034917
LC Class PZ7.H87395 Do[1]
PZ7.H87395 Dav 1978[2]

Dogger is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Shirley Hughes, published by The Bodley Head in 1977.[3] It features a boy and his stuffed dog, who is lost, showing "the distress the loss of a toy causes a child".[3] The boy's sister has an opportunity to earn Dogger back.

Hughes won the 1977 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel of experts named Dogger one of the top ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.[4] Dogger won the public vote and thus it was named the all-time "Greenaway of Greenaways" on 21 June 2007. (The public voted on the panel's shortlist of ten, selected from the 53 winning works 1955 to 2005. Hughes and Dogger polled 26% of the vote to 25% for its successor, the 1978 medalist Janet Ahlberg and Each Peach Pear Plum.)[5][6]

The librarians recommend the book for "young readers"[3] and for ages 4+.

Prentice-Hall published the first U.S. edition in 1978 under the title David and Dog.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Dogger" (first edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-09-01.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "David and dog" (first U.S. edition). LCC record. Retrieved 2012-09-01.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 (Greenaway Winner 1977). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
  4. ↑ "70 Years Celebration: Anniversary Top Tens". The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards. CILIP. 2007. Retrieved 2012-06-30.
  5. ↑ "Pullman wins 'Carnegie of Carnegies'". Michelle Pauli. guardian.co.uk 21 June 2007. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
  6. ↑ "Carnegie of Carnegies & Greenaway of Greenaways". Christchurch City Libraries Blog. 22 June 2007. Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
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