The Summer Puppy

The joyful and lyrical story of a puppy’s first summer, this gorgeous picture book captures. In words and pictures, Rosie the puppy’s growth and development, what she learns and discovers, and what she knows by instinct. Her home is out in the countryside, with the sea nearby. Fields, woods and the beach are all explored with her child owner, and the changing seasons are atmospherically depicted as summer moves on into autumn and the start of winter.

Cathy Fisher is an illustrator and author whose work reveals a deep appreciation of nature and the animal world, as well as of human emotion and behaviour. She grew up in Bath and has lived and worked in Australia and the Seychelles as well as in the UK. She has collaborated on eight books with Nicola Davies including the highly acclaimed inclusive picture book, Perfect, and this is her second picture book with Jackie Morris, following The Panda’s Child. Jackie Morris is the bestselling author and illustrator, photographer and painter who created the international bestseller, The Lost Words, winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal in 2019, with Robert Macfarlane. Her books for Otter-Barry Books include One Cheetah, One Cherry, The Seal Children, Something About a Bear, The Jackie Morris Book of Classic Nursery Rhymes and, with James Mayhew, Can You See a Little Bear?, Mrs Noah’s Pockets, Mrs Noah’s Garden and Mrs Noah’s Song.