Dogger (book) facts for kids
Front cover of unknown edition
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| Author | Shirley Hughes |
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| Illustrator | Shirley Hughes |
| Cover artist | Hughes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's picture book |
| Publisher | Bodley Head |
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Publication date
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1977 |
| Pages | 32 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-370-30006-1 |
| OCLC | 4034917 |
| LC Class | PZ7.H87395 Do PZ7.H87395 Dav 1978 |
Dogger is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Shirley Hughes, published by The Bodley Head in 1977.
Plot
It features a boy and his stuffed dog, who is lost, showing "the distress the loss of a toy causes a child". The boy's sister has an opportunity to earn Dogger back.
Awards
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. 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.)
- Neumark, Victoria. "Gems for the ears." Times Educational Supplement (04 Sep. 1998): VI.
- "Pullman and Hughes all-time winners." Library & Information Update 6.7/8 (July 2007): 2-2.
- —immediately, first US edition
