Poor Danny is lonely. Looks like he'll have to go out and find a companion! So he heads straight for the petshop - a nice little dog will suit him down to the ground. But the petshop owner doesn't have any dogs - and he offers Danny something else, instead: a living, breathing, 'human' friend of his own. Danny can't believe his luck - at last a companion that will actually talk to him. But perhaps making friends isn't quite that simple, as Danny begins to realise in the adventures that follow . . . Are friends really worth the bother!

 

There are 48 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2002 by Hachette Children's Group .

Paul Stewart is the very funny, very talented author of more than fifteen books for children, including The Edge Chronicles, a collaboration with Chris Riddell. Frieda Hughes is a talented artist and poet, as well the author of many books for children. She is the daughter of the late poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, and the late author Sylvia Plath. Frieda spends a lot of time in Australia, where she has a house, but lives mainly in London with her husband, the artist Laszlo Lucas.