Digby: The Biggest Dog in the World

by Alan Fennell

Disney movie tie-in. Black & white photos from the film. Scholastic. 1974. 92 pp. Pocket book size.

90 pages, Paperback

First published September 7, 1973

Reviews

[Marnie Bebej · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this to the kiddo. I'm assuming the movie came before the book as it read like an early Disney movie. Wish they had developed the book more. I felt I could see it playing out since I've watched the older movies but my son was getting a little lost with the abrupt jumps.

[Nichole Christian · Rating 1 out of 5]

This would be better served as a children's picture book. No development of characters or plot. Just a basic through the motions story.

[Brian]

I read this in the 1970s, loved it, then forgot about it entirely. I was just reminded of it by the "Films with Exploding Helicopters" list on Letterboxd.

[Sharon Buxton · Rating 3 out of 5]

C+. fiction, children's fiction, upper elementary, fantasy, adventure, silly, made into movie, from stash, keep

[Pammi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A favourite childhood movie!

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked up this novelization for 75 cents because the cover showed a giant dog. I'd give the novelization a three, because it felt like a combination of the movie CHOMPS and the circus episode of Knight Rider. (After writing that description, I bumped it up to a four, because that's probably my ideal movie.)

The strangest part of this story is that it revolves around a top-secret NATO experiment to grow vegetables faster than normal, in space. I had no idea NATO did projects like that! I guess cool stuff happens when countries work together.