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The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog

by Jeremy Strong, illustrated by Nick Sharratt

Interest age: 6 to 9
Reading age: 7+

Published by Penguin, 2007

  • Chapter books
  • Classics
  • Funny

About this book

Trevor’s mother offers him £30 if he’ll walk the dog every day for summer. It sounds easy enough, but the dog - Streaker - has other ideas. A humorous, well-illustrated, award-winning tale of roller skates, mobile phones, an exercise bike – and a bath full of frog-spawn.

About the author

Jeremy Strong is an English writer credited with over 100 children's books. He once worked in a bakery, putting jam into doughnuts. He also worked as caretaker, a strawberry-picker and in an office for British Rail.

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