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- Title: Scruffy: the Return
- Author : Jack Stoneley
- Release Date : January 18, 2017
- Genre: Pets,Books,Lifestyle & Home,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 12622 KB
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Illustrated with photos of the whole gang of strays, this is the long-awaited sequel to 'Scruffy: The Tuesday Dog’, inspired by a dog that reporter Jack Stoneley discovered in the Manchester & District Dogs Home. Struck by the lovable stray sitting quietly but forlorn in a cold, forbidding cage marked ‘Tuesday’, Jack knew at once he had to do something about it.
If a stray was brought in on a Tuesday it was put in the Tuesday cell. If no one bailed it out by the following Tuesday, it took its last walk to the room at the end of the yard where it would be put to sleep. On the Tuesday after Jack visited, his article appeared on the front page of the Daily Mirror, and its readers refused to let her die. From being the pooch without a pal, she became the most wanted dog in Britain. When it was all over, Manchester miner’s son Derrick Davies, just 4 years of age at the time, threw his arms around the abandoned dog’s neck and said, ‘Daddy, is he really mine!’
Jack was so moved by the nation’s response that he wrote ‘Scruffy: The Tuesday Dog’, dedicating the tale to the many millions of unwanted strays throughout the world. And then he wrote the sequel, Scruffy: the Return, which takes up the story after her rescue, when Derrick’s mother discovers that Scruffy is about to have pups.
Scruffy was described by the Library Journal as ‘a classic for perfectly catching a dog's-eye view of the world’ and was snapped up by Warner Brothers and made into a film which can be seen today on YouTube at http://bit.ly/2tYtnu1.
In ‘Scruffy: the Return’ the father of Scruffy’s pups is revealed as one of the original gang of strays – Butch, the bull terrier that ran the gang before they were picked up in Book 1. Fact and fiction mix in a captivating tale full of such charm and realism that as far away as America, the story so bewitched readers they started a blog on the Internet. We hope you enjoy the books too!
‘Scruffy: the Return’ comes with an active List of Illustrations which enables you to home in on the photographs of the canine characters in the story.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jack Stoneley was a reporter and later northern editor of the Daily Mirror
(at the time Britain's most popular newspaper, selling 5 million copies a day). He wrote feature articles and covered news events on a wide range of topics. Some of the most widely acclaimed were exposures on animal injustice and exploitation.
Besides Scruffy and Scruffy: the Return, Jack is the author of a number of other books, including Jenny’s War, a true story set in the Second World War about the heartfelt search of a mother for her son whose plane was shot down over Germany. Jenny’s War was made into a series for ITV, starring Dyan Cannon, Nigel Hawthorne, Robert Hardy Christopher Cazenove and Hugh Grant.
But Scruffy always remained the book closest to Jack’s heart, as his daughter Jane remembers: ‘My father wasn’t a business person, he was a very emotional person who loved animals as much if not more than he loved people. Making money wasn’t what his life was about. But Scruffy kept him going. Whenever things got tough a royalty cheque would appear like magic, almost like it was payback time.’