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Dodie Smith

The Starlight Barking

The Starlight Barking

by Dodie Smith

Publisher Heinmann

Genre: Children's & YA

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About the book

Dodie Smith’s classic sequel to The Hundred and One Dalmations.

Strange things are happening. Dogs are the only creatures in the world that are awake, and they can communicate through thought waves. Best of all, they can swoosh through the air. Pongo, Missis and the family swoosh up to London to see if they can help sort out what’s going on. Is it Cruella de Vil, up to her old tricks? Or is it something or someone far more sinister?

About the Author

Dodie Smith

Dodie Smith was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.


Other works include I Capture the Castle and The Starlight Barking. The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 animated film and a 1996 live-action film, both produced by Disney.


Her novel I Capture the Castle was adapted into a 2003 move version. I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read.

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