‘Mr Puffles’ by Cristina Briones first published by Random House Australia in 2016. Text copyright © Cristina Briones 2016.
‘Suzie the Wonderdog’ by Jacqueline Harvey first published by Random House Australia in 2016. Text copyright © Jacqueline Harvey 2016.
‘Doggone’ by Martin Chatterton first published by Random House Australia in 2016. Text copyright © Martin Chatterton 2016.
‘Many Dogs, One Bone’ by George Ivanoff first published by Random House Australia in 2016. Text copyright © George Ivanoff 2016.
‘The Magic Piddle’ by Bronwyn O’Reilly first published by Random House Australia in 2016. Text copyright © Bronwyn O’Reilly 2016.
‘The Dog Who Forgot’ by Rae Murdie first published by Random House Australia in 2016. Text copyright © Rae Murdie 2016.
‘Hot Diggity Dog’ by Aleesah Darlison first published by Random House Australia in 2016. Text copyright © Aleesah Darlison 2016.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
NICK FALK is a clinical psychologist who has written four series of children’s books, Saurus Street, Billy is a Dragon, Samurai vs Ninja and the new How To series. He lives with his wife and two young sons in London. He enjoys climbing up mountains, swimming with sharks that don’t swim too fast and eating chocolate cake. He is very good at the chocolate cake one. Nick has been writing stories since he could count and loves every minute of it.
SOFIE LAGUNA was born in 1968 in Sydney. She studied to be a lawyer, but after deciding law was not for her, she trained as an actor. Sofie is now an author, actor and playwright. Her most recent novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep, won the 2015 Miles Franklin Award. Sofie’s first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award.
Sofie’s many books for young people have been named Honour Books and Notable Books in the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards and have been shortlisted in the Queensland Premier’s Awards. She has been published in the US and the UK and in translation in Europe and Asia. Her titles include My Yellow Blanky, Too Loud Lily, Bird and Sugar Boy, Bad Buster and Where Are You, Banana? In 2011 Sofie published the bestselling Grace Stories, as part of the Our Australian Girl series.
Sofie lives in Melbourne with her husband and two young sons, and continues to write for both adults and children.
TRISTAN BANCKS is a children’s and teen author with a background in acting and filmmaking. His books include Two Wolves (recognised as an Honour Book in the 2015 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, as well as winner of the YABBA and KOALA Children’s Choice Awards), the My Life series (weird-funny-gross short stories featuring Tom Weekly) and Mac Slater, Coolhunter. His short films as writer and director have won a number of awards and have screened widely in festivals and on TV. Tristan is excited by the future of storytelling and inspiring others to create. For more information visit tristanbancks.com
CRISTINA BRIONES is a dog-obsessed editor who enjoys the company of cats. She has neither as pets, but imagines that their characters would be very much like those of Mr Puffles, the mastermind pooch, and Oscar, the love-stricken kitty.
R.A. SPRATT is the author of The Adventures of Nanny Piggins. This is a nine-book series about an impossibly glamorous flying pig who ran away from a circus to become a childcare worker and who flagrantly ignores all contemporary theories about healthy eating.
R.A. Spratt is currently writing the sixth instalment of the Friday Barnes detective series. Her favourite bit about being a mystery writer is getting hate tweets from exasperated readers who claim to be dying of frustration due to the cliffhanger endings.
R.A. has written for 32 different television shows. Even she has trouble remembering what they were all called.
R.A. Spratt lives in Bowral, Australia with her husband and two daughters. She has a dog, three chickens and five goldfish, and her next-door neighbour’s cat thinks it lives in her house. For more information, visit raspratt.com
JACQUELINE HARVEY taught for many years in girls’ boarding schools. She is the author of the bestselling Alice-Miranda series and the Clementine Rose series, and was awarded Honour Book in the 2006 Australian CBC Awards for her picture book The Sound of the Sea. She now writes full-time and is working on more Alice-Miranda and Clementine Rose adventures. You can find out more at jacquelineharvey.com.au
MARTIN CHATTERTON was born in Liverpool, England, and has been successfully writing and illustrating books for almost 30 years. He has written dozens of children’s books and illustrated many more for other writers, including several British Children’s Laureates. His work has been published in 14 languages and has won and been shortlisted in numerous awards in the UK, US and Australia. Alongside writing for children, Martin writes crime fiction (as Ed Chatterton), continues to work as a graphic designer and is currently working on his PhD. After time spent in the US, Martin now divides his time between Australia and the UK.
GEORGE IVANOFF is an author and stay-at-home dad residing in Melbourne. He has written over 100 books for children and teenagers, including the interactive You Choose series, the RFDS Adventures and the Gamers trilogy. George has also had stories published in numerous anthologies, including Rich & Rare (Ford St., 2015), Stories For 9 Year Olds (Random House Australia, 2014) … and this one. George eats too much chocolate, drinks too much coffee and watches too much Doctor Who. George would really like to own a robot dog. His website is georgeivanoff.com.au
BRONWYN O’REILLY is a children’s book editor and writer who lives in London, for the moment. She can’t wait to one day have a cheeky dog of her own.
RAE MURDIE is an editor based in Sydney. She has many things in common with Bosley, including a love of date loaf.
ALEESAH DARLISON is a much-published award-winning Australian author. She has written over 30 picture books and novels for boys and girls of all ages. The themes in her stories promote the concepts of courage, understanding, anti-bullying, love, self-belief, friendship and teamwork. Her books include Stripes in the Forest: The Story of the Last Wild Thylacine, Mama and Hug, the Netball Gems series, Awesome Animal Stories for Kids, Warambi, Ash Rover and the Unicorn Riders series. In 2015, Aleesah won the Environment Award for Children’s Literature in the nonfiction category for her book Our Class Tiger. When Aleesah isn’t creating entertaining and enchanting stories for children, she’s usually looking after her four rather energetic children. Her website is aleesahdarlison.com
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
JULES FABER is a multi-award-winning cartoonist and illustrator. He has published numerous comic strips, worked for various newspapers, taught cartooning around Australia, been in multiple art exhibitions and has worked as an animator on a Disney show. And on top of all that, he loves illustrating children’s books, including Anh Do’s WeirDo series (Scholastic), Helix and the Arrival by Damean Posner and the Leo da Vinci series by Michael Pryor.
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Title: Dog stories.
ISBN: 9780143780960 (ebook)
Target Audience: For primary school age.
Subjects: Dogs--Juvenile fiction.
Dewey Number: A823.4
Cover image © Jules Faber 2016
Cover design by Leanne Beattie
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