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A series of children's modern classic novels by renowned 20th century children's writers. All the titles in this series have the A Puffin Book logo, contemporary-style covers, and child-friendly endnotes.

The Battle of Bubble and Squeak

The Little Gentleman

Lion at School and Other Stories

The Rope and Other Stories

Tom's Midnight Garden

Green Smoke

The Call of the Wild

Kiki's Delivery Service

Sword of Fire

Finn Family Moomintroll

Comet in Moominland

The Exploits of Moominpappa

Moominsummer Madness

Moominland Midwinter

Tales from Moominvalley

Moominpappa at Sea

Moominvalley in November

Laughter is an Egg

Tales from Watership Down

The Whale Rider

Chinese Cinderella

45th Anniversary Edition

The Neverending Story

Watership Down

Stig of the Dump

The Little Prince

A Dog So Small

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Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He's picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library - and he just knows he's going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful thing, and when Ben puts his to work, his adventures really begin!

A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. 
 
Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. 
 
Philippa Pearce's poignant story of a young boy who longs for a pet dog. 
In A DOG SO SMALL young Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He's picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library - and he just knows he's going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful thing, and when Ben puts his to work, his adventures really begin! 
 
Philippa Pearce grew up in a millhouse near Cambridge and read English and history at Girton College. She was a scriptwriter-producer for the BBC, a children's book editor and reviewer, a lecturer, a storyteller and freelance writer for radio and newspapers as well as writing some of the best-loved books of the 20th century. She won a Carnegie Medal for TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN and a Whitbread Prize for THE BATTLE OF BUBBLE AND SQUEAK. She died in December, 2006. 
 
Also available in A Puffin Book: 
GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM and BACK HOME by Michelle Magorian 
CHARLOTTE'S WEB, STUART LITTLE and THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E. B. White 
THE BORROWERS by Mary Norton 
STIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King 
ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D. Taylor 
A DOG SO SMALL by Philippa Pearce 
GOBBOLINO by Ursula Moray Williams 
CARRIE'S WAR by Nina Bawden 
MRS FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH by Richard C O'Brien 
A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L'Engle 
THE CAY by Theodore Taylor 
TARKA THE OTTER by Henry Williamson 
WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams 
SMITH by Leon Garfield 
THE NEVERENDING STORY by Michael Ende 
ANNIE by Thomas Meehan 
THE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET by Eve Garnett

Philippa Pearce grew up in a millhouse near Cambridge and read English and history at Girton College. She was a scriptwriter-producer for the BBC, a children's book editor and reviewer, a lecturer, a storyteller and freelance writer for radio and newspapers as well as writing some of the best-loved books of the 20th century. She won a Carnegie Medal for TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN and a Whitbread Prize for THE BATTLE OF BUBBLE AND SQUEAK. She died in December, 2006.

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