Dogger Quotes

“Once there was a soft brown toy called Dogger. One of his ears pointed upwards and the other flopped over. His fur was worn in places because he was quite old.”

“When it was cold he wrapped him up in a bit of blanket.”

“At bed-time he said: ‘I want Dogger.’ But Dogger was nowhere to be found.”

“Now and again Dave’s Mum said that Dogger was getting much too dirty. She showed Dave how to wash him in a bowl of soapy water.”

“Dave’s baby brother, Joe, liked hard things. He liked putting them in his mouth and biting on them because he was getting teeth.”

“At tea-time Dave was rather quiet. In the bath he was even quieter.”

“When Dad came home he looked for Dogger too. He searched in the shed and down the garden path with a torch. But Dogger was quite lost.”

“He had 3p but that wasn’t enough. He ran to find Mum and Dad to ask them to buy Dogger back at once.”

“At tea-time Dave was rather quiet. In the bath he was even quieter.”

“Bella kindly lent him one of her teddies to go to sleep with, but it was not the same thing as Dogger. Dave kept waking up in the middle of the night and missing him.”

″‘Wouldn’t you like to go in for a race?’ they asked Dave. But Dave didn’t feel like racing. He was missing Dogger too much.”

“Dave didn’t like that Teddy at all. At that moment he didn’t like Bella much either because she kept winning things.”

“And there, at the very back of the stall, behind a lot of other toys... DOGGER!”

“Dave tried to explain to the lady that it was his Dogger, who had got lost and somehow been put on the stall by mistake, but she wasn’t listening.”