By Ruby Wright (author) , Ruby Wright (illustrator)
"A warm-hearted story about finding your place in school"
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A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month June 2024
Within this warm-hearted story about finding your place in school, Invisible Dogs is a wonderful celebration of imaginary play which will delight all those who already enjoy it while also inspiring others to begin to do so.
At home Ida is busy and happy. Her favourite thing is playing imaginary games with Grandpa. But at school she becomes shy and silent as she finds it all too noisy and busy. Clever Grandpa comes up with an idea to help her. Soon Ida begins to take her own friends to school: two imaginary dogs!
Looking after the two dogs gives Ida plenty to do in the playground and what’s more she finds out that there are other imaginary pets there too! Ruby Wright captures both the real school environment and the imagination of the children perfectly.
When you start school, sometimes you need a best friend (or two).
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Ida is so noisy at home, but at school she is so quiet she doesn't make any friends. Luckily Grandpa knows the best game to cheer her up: invisible shops. Little does he know that Ida will buy two invisible dogs, and those dogs are going to cause chaos!
Ruby Wright was born in Winchester, but her family moved to Dorset when she was six months old (where she still has close connections). After art college, Ruby worked at the BBC and created podcasts for This American Life before rediscovering her love of printmaking.
Highly respected as a printmaker and illustrator, Ruby has been Sketcher-in-Residence at Refugee Tales and Artist-in-Residence at the Plastic Waste Innovation Hub, University College London. Ruby is based in London where she lives with her family and absolutely no pets. She has a masterful command of colour, character creation and storytelling with more than a dash of humour. Ruby can also play the musical saw. Animal Crackers was her debut picture book.
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When you start school, sometimes you need a best friend (or two).Ida is so noisy at home, but at school she is so quiet she doesn't make any friends. Luckily Grandpa knows the best game to cheer her up: invisible shops.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Invisible Dogs and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-6 years old
Invisible Dogs features in the following genres: Featured Books for 3+ readers, Recommendations, Julia Eccleshare's Picks of the Month, School Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Animal Stories, Featured Books for 5+ readers
Paperback, Hardback. £7.19, down from the £7.99 cover price. In Stock.
Invisible Dogs was written by Ruby Wright and published by Rocket Bird Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Invisible Dogs has 32 pages
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