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Good Dog Mctavish

Meg Rosoff author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:4th Apr '17

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A charming and witty take on a family going to the dogs and the dog who must save them, from the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award-winner. Filled to the brim with Meg’s wry humour and beautiful prose and illustrated throughout in black and white, this is a story for the young and the young at heart.

A charming and witty take on a family going to the dogs and the dog who must save them, from the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award-winner. Filled to the brim with Meg's wry humour and beautiful prose, this is a story for the young and the young at heart.The Peachey family is in crisis. No one cooks dinner, no one picks up the dirty washing and thekids are always late for school. All because Mum has resigned from being Mum and taken up yogainstead. She's in the tree pose; everyone else is in the doghouse. Except McTavish, a rescue dog witha difference, on a mission to sort his new family out...Filled to the brim with Meg's wry humour and beautiful prose, this is a story for the young and the young at heart.

"Brilliantly charming and heartwarming … full of spark, keen observations and sly humour" – BookTrust

"A sweetly humorous story" – Kirkus Reviews

"A work of gentle genius … a witty, stylish, often hilarious delight" – Literary Review

"A clever, funny and extremely stylish novella, and a wonderful bit of domestic satire" – LoveReading4Kids

  • Short-listed for King's School Chester Award 2019
  • Long-listed for UKLA Award 2018
  • Nominated for Carnegie Medal 2018
  • Nominated for Kate Greenaway Medal 2018

ISBN: 9781781126837

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Weight: unknown

104 pages