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Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
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Cover artist | Derek Collard |
Language | English |
Genre | Children's fantasy |
Publisher | Macmillan Publishers (UK) Greenwillow Books (US) |
Publication date | 1975 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 191 or 239 |
ISBN | 0333187911 |
OCLC | 47813078 |
Dogsbody is a 1975 children's novel by British writer Diana Wynne Jones, first published by Macmillan. It tells the story of Sirius, a star who is forced to live in the body of a dog on Earth. The book was Wynne Jones' fifth full-length novel (published the same year as her fourth and sixth novels, Cart and Cwidder and Eight Days of Luke).[1]