by Philippa Pearce · Puffin · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780140311839
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«The Battle of Bubble and Squeak» is the children's novel by Philippa Pearce, published by Puffin in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Siblings Sid, Peggy and Amy adore their two gerbils, Bubble and Squeak, but their mother detests pets and life at home becomes a battlefield. Family tension escalates until an incident with Ginger the cat puts the rodents in danger and forces everyone to rethink the conflict.
It won the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1978. The illustrations are by Alan Baker. The original work was published in 1978; this Puffin edition is from 1980.
Recommended for child and young adult readers, especially those who enjoy stories about animals and family.
Ann Philippa Pearce OBE FRSL was an English author of children's books. Best known of those books is the time-slip novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Pearce was a commended runner-up for the Medal a further four times.
