Poppy and Max and the Lost Puppy

Poppy And Max

by Sally Grindley, Lindsey Gardiner (Illustrator)

Poppy and Max have found a lost puppy. Poppy thinks he's adorable, but Max isn't so sure, especially when Poppy seems to like the puppy better than him!

32 pages, Paperback

First published September 6, 2007

About the author

I came into children's books originally as Editorial Director of a nationwide children's book club, though I had written and directed a children's play while a student at Sussex University, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe. I wrote my first two children's picture books in 1984 and was lucky enough that Anthony Browne wanted to illustrate the second - Knock Knock Who's There? It was published in 1985, is still going strong today and is one of my most successful.

Shhh! was published in 1991 and has known great success in France/Belgium in particular (close on 300,000 copies sold). It's success in the UK - it won the Children's Book Award - was hampered by the liquidation of its original publisher.

I became a full-time author in 1995 and now have some 150+ titles published, the most recent being L'Histoire du Soir in France, Belgium and Italy.

Feather Wars, published in 2003, was my first sortie into young fiction and was followed by the very successful Spilled Water, which has been published in some ten different languages and is very popular in schools as a class reader. It won the Nestle Smarties Gold Award (and I wound up being a 'Pointless' answer on the back of it!) Broken Glass came next and was a Sunday Times Book of the Week.

I'm currently working on picture books again and have plans to illustrate one of my own in the not too distant future - watch this space!

Reviews

[Emma Martinez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poppy and Max and the Lost Puppy is a story about a girl named Poppy and her dog called Max. Max and Poppy find a lost puppy on the doorstep one rainy afternoon. Poppy likes the puppy and feeds it Max's cupcake and lets it play with Max's ball. Max gets a little jealous of having to share Poppy's attention and his toys. The next day Poppy and Max put a poster up to find the puppy's owner, while doing this the puppy runs down the road towards a boy. The puppy had found its owner. Poppy was a little sad that the puppy had gone however Max was happy as they were back to just the two of them.

This is a nice story for children who are advancing in their reading as it features speech marks and a range of punctuality which is great for end of key stage 1 readers. The story also touches upon issues of jealous feelings and sharing which is vital to children's emotional and social development and helps them to understand why they may have these feelings and what they should do. This is a nice book with plenty of pictures to engage and explain the story to young readers.