The Storm Dog

By Author / Illustrator

Holly Webb

Genre

Adventure

Age range(s)

Publisher

Little Tiger Press Group

ISBN

9781847157935

Format

Hardback

Published

07-09-2017

Synopsis

Tilly is going to stay with her gran and great-gran in Wales. She's got a big school project about the Second World War to do and Gran, who was evacuated herself during the war, has promised to help. Travelling on the train for the first time alone, Tilly falls asleep and wakes up to discover she's travelled all the way back to World War II. She's being evacuated to Wales with her two younger brothers. Stern Mr Edwards offers to give them a home on his remote farm, where she meets a very special sheepdog...

Reviews

The story follows a small girl called Tilly to Wales when she goes to stay with her grandma and great-grandma. She's learning about the Second World War at school and wants some help from her grandma who was an evacuee in the war. Tilly has to get on the train all by herself for the first time but without realising, she falls asleep. When she wakes up, she discovers that she has travelled back in time and she is living amongst World War Two. In this dramatic twist, she finds herself being evacuated to Wales. Along with her two brothers, they find a farmer called Mr Edwards who offers to take them in. They soon adjust to life on the farm and Tilly makes a new friend. This is an adventure story filled with exciting twists and turns. It shows the power of a dream and the magic that can be found within stories. It has relatively large text but it is quite a long story with some slightly more complex vocabulary. There are some illustrations but not too many so I would recommend it for slightly older readers. A great read to get children thinking about how life hasn't always been this way. 186 pages / Ages 7 + / Reviewed by Lucy Newton, teacher