Fay Weldon
Children's Books
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Wolf the mechanical dog
Illustrated by Pat Leyshun
William Collins Sons & Co Ltd
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From the book jacket:
"It took a Mechanical Dog to flush the humans out. For all their tin noses, they seemed able to catch the scent of flesh and blood, and their piston legs were fast. Robondrans could only lumber, so stiff had their joints lately become. One human every five years was needed to keep an ordinary Robondran going, and two every year for the Great Robondra himself. So these days humans were in short supply." Fay Weldon's picture of a future world is both frightening and funny. Even though machines are dominant it is still possible for human children to throw a spanner in the works. The story of what they do to Wolf the Mechanical Dog - and what he then does for them - will delight young and old alike. Bio from the book jacket: Fay Weldon is, in the adult world, a well-known writer of novels, short stories, stage and television plays. She has four sons. Although she has written librettos for young people's opera, Wolf The Mechanical Dog is her first children's story. "You need courage," she says, "to write them. When it comes to books, children are harder to please than adults - they expect a lot and why should they not?" | |