McTavish - Good Dog McTavish
Paperback
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.
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.
RRP: £7.99
Imprint
Barrington Stoke
ISBN
978-1-78112-683-7
Interest age
9+
Publication Date
04-04-2017
Format
Paperback
Pages
144 pages
Dimensions
130x198mm
Product Description
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.
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.
Author
Meg Rosoff, Illustrated by Grace Easton
Meg Rosoff is a hugely versatile novelist for children and adults and has won the Branford Boase Award, the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Printz Award. Her post-apocalyptic How I Live Now was made into a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Picture Me Gone was shortlisted for the National Book Award in the USA. Originally from Massachusetts, Meg now lives in London.
Imprint
Barrington Stoke
ISBN
978-1-78112-683-7
Interest age
9+
Publication Date
04-04-2017
Format
Paperback
Pages
144 pages
Dimensions
130x198mm
Product Description
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.
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.
Author
Meg Rosoff, Illustrated by Grace Easton
Meg Rosoff is a hugely versatile novelist for children and adults and has won the Branford Boase Award, the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Printz Award. Her post-apocalyptic How I Live Now was made into a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Picture Me Gone was shortlisted for the National Book Award in the USA. Originally from Massachusetts, Meg now lives in London.
