...like jelly and ice cream, like buckets and spades, and like Flora and her dog Poddy. But when Flora goes to visit Gran, Poddy has to stay at home and nothing is much fun. And then Poddy realises it's not just Flora he's missing, but his tail seems to have disappeared too! When will Flora come home, and where on earth is Poddy's tail?
An endearing and amusing tale about a little girl and her much-loved dog.
Paula Metcalf is a hugely talented illustrator with a growing reputation. She graduated from Anglia Polytechnic with a First Class Honours degree in illustration and an MA in children's illustration. She won the Macmillan Prize for Illustration in 2003 and is the author and illustrator of WE LOVE BUNK BEDS! (978 1 4050 5565 9) and IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! (978 0 230 01784 9) - both of which feature the charming elephant sisters, Shirley and Doris, as well as the brilliantly funny NORMA SNOWS (978 0 230 53177 2) which featured on CiTV's Bookaboo programme. Paula has previously been Illustrator-in-Residence at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Buckinghamshire, and now runs popular workshops in schools.