Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices. Washed up, alive, on an English beach, their survival is a miracle.

Meet Doctor Dog, he's the Gumboyle family's favourite pet and their very own trusty physician. When Doctor Dog jets off to a medical conference in Brazil the Guimboyles decide they can't survive without him and so he returns to rescue them from all sorts of ailments- itchy nits, tickly tonsils and worms to name but a few. . .

Details

ISBN13: 9780099650812
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 40
Edition:
Publication Date: 05 Apr 1996
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publication City, Country: United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 251(H)x246(L)x4(W)194
Weight (gm): 194

Author Biography

Babette Cole was born in Jersey in the Channel Islands. She graduated from Canterbury College of Art in 1973 and was the illustrator and author of more than 150 witty, imaginative, irreverent and thought-provoking picture books for children including the bestselling, stereotype-defying Princess Smartypants. She produced animated storyboards for the BBC and illustrated numerous greetings cards and books by other authors as well as her own. Babette adored the countryside and was a keen horse rider and breeder. She spent much of her life in Lincolnshire, before moving to Kent and then westward through Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.

Reviews

Earthy humour gets across some serious points about family hygiene * The Good Book Guide *