The Dog Star
by Jenny Nimmo
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Looking at the sky one frosty night, Marty sees the Dog Star in all its brilliance for the first time. Although she has Tiggy, her cat, Marty longs for a dog; she'd call it Star. Later that night, when the Dog Star's light beams into her room, she discovers a real, live dog beneath her bed, and it seems that her wish has come true. But will Star bring Marty and her family happiness?Tags
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One frosty night Marty’s dad shows her the amazing Dog Star with all its flashing colours. Marty thinks it is beautiful and tells him that she dreams about having a dog, one that she would call star with long silky hair and eyes the colour of midnight. Her dad has said no as their elderly cat, Tiggy, wouldn’t like a dog in the house. That night, the Dog Star’s twinkling light beams into her room, seeming to bring with it the dog that she has wished for. Then her dad, who is a widower, meets Miss Theresa Tree who has lost her dog. Marty’s older sister Claire is furious at the possibility of a stepmother. This is a lovely story in the first chapter book genre that deals sensitively with family issues.
Will the Dog Star she glimpses one frosty night bring Marty and the family the happiness they long for?
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Born in Windsor, England in 1944, Nimmo's father died when she was only five. By the time she was fourteen, she had gone to two boarding schools and had joined a theater company in England. Her unstable childhood led to a series of diverse jobs where she worked in several fields as a nanny, a photographic researcher, and a floor manager at the show more BBC. At the BBC she became a director of Jackanory, a children's show. After having her first child, Nimmo left the BBC and began work on her first novel, "The Bronze Trumpeteer." Nimmo is best known for two series of fantasy novels: The Magician Trilogy (1986 to 1989), contemporary stories rooted in Welsh myth, and Children of the Red King (2002 to 2010), featuring Charlie Bone and other magically endowed school children. The Snow Spider, first of the Magician books, won the second annual Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the 1987 Tir na n-Og Award as the year's best original-English-language book with "authentic Welsh background". The Stone Mouse was highly commended for the 1993 Carnegie Medal. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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