by Gerald Durrell · Scott Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780952208471
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«Puppy's Field Day» is Gerald Durrell's illustrated children's book, published by Scott Ltd in hardback (28 pages, in English).
A puppy goes out to spend the day in the countryside and becomes the centre of an adventure featuring animals. Between outdoor games and small discoveries, the story shows his curiosity about nature. Cliff Wright's illustrations recreate the puppies in meadows and trees, with a warm tone suitable for young children.
It is the fourth volume in the Puppy Tales series and was published in 1993. The work also appears under the title Puppy Goes on a Picnic.
For young children and early readers who enjoy animal stories and illustrations featuring puppies.
Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller.
