“Born at the very start of the summer, so small she could rest easily in the cupped hands of a child …”
From a little furry bundle, Rosie the puppy grows, learns, and explores her world – rose petals, spiders and butterflies in the garden, the jungle of long summer grass, the fields where a fox calls, the beach where she chases waves and digs deep in the sand.
Warmly and lovingly, Rosie’s first summer is recreated in Jackie Morris’s poetic words and Cathy Fisher’s unforgettable images.
Rich in the sense of discovery, rich too in the love between puppy and child, here is a timeless country idyll for all ages.
Jackie Morris is the bestselling author and illustrator, photographer and painter who created, with Robert MacFarlane, the international sensation, The Lost Words, winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal in 2019. Her books for Otter-Barry Books include I am Cat, Something About a Bear, The Jackie Morris Book of Classic Nursery Rhymes, The Seal Children, Can You See a Little Bear?, the Mrs Noah series with James Mayhew, and The Panda’s Child and The Summer Puppy with Cathy Fisher. She lives in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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 and now lives in Pembrokeshire, Wales. This is her third picture book with Jackie Morris, following The Panda’s Child and The Summer Puppy.