Working dogs and their true histories, told by one of the most reliable storytellers of the Edwardian nursery.
Lilian Gask (1865-1942) wrote some thirty books, most of them animal stories for young readers, and True Dog Stories is among the best remembered. The tales gathered here are of dogs at work and dogs in extremity - the gun dog and the sheep dog, the police dog and the guide dog, the dog carried into war - each told plainly, for reading aloud, and each presented as a record rather than an invention.
It belongs to a tradition of humane animal writing that flourished either side of the First World War, and it has lost none of its readability.
This edition features:
- True tales of working dogs: gun dogs, sheep dogs, police dogs, guide dogs and war dogs
- Written by Lilian Gask, one of the most prolific animal storytellers of her generation
- Short chapters, plainly told, made for reading aloud
- A classic of the humane animal writing of the early twentieth century