A Deer Called Dotty

Jasmine Green #9

by Helen Peters, Ellie Snowdon (Illustrator)

Jasmine's dad is a farmer, and her mum is a large-animal vet, so Jasmine spends a lot of time caring for animals and keeping them out of trouble. Unfortunately, this often means she gets into hot water herself... A perfect animal story for younger readers by Waterstones Children's Book Prize-shortlisted author Helen Peters, with beautiful black-and-white illustrations by Ellie Snowdon. Jasmine's mother is called to help a pregnant deer who has been hit by a car. She performs an emergency Caesarean and delivers tiny, helpless Dotty, before handing her over to Jasmine to raise... Brilliant storytelling that will make you laugh and cry, this is Dick King-Smith for a new generation. Look out for Jasmine's other adventures! A Piglet Called Truffle A Duckling Called Button A Sheepdog Called Sky A Kitten Called Holly A Lamb Called Lucky A Goat Called Willow An Otter Called Pebble An Owl Called Star

Genres: Fiction, Chapter Books

144 pages, Paperback

Published August 6, 2020

About the author

Helen Peters is the author of The Secret Hen House Theatre. She grew up on an old-fashioned farm in Sussex, surrounded by family, animals and mud. She spent most of her childhood reading stories and putting on plays in a tumbledown shed that she and her friends turned into a theatre. After university, she realised that she needed to find a job where someone would pay her to read stories and put on plays (though maybe not in a tumbledown shed) and so she became an English and Drama teacher. Several years later, finding herself as a stay-at-home mother of two, she decided to have a go at writing the sort of book she’d so enjoyed as a child. Helen lives with her husband and children in London, and she can still hardly believe that she now gets to call herself a writer.

Reviews

[Jenna]

I have enjoyed reading this series with my daughter but this one included an emergency c-section and amputation. The most graphic of the books thus far.

[Emma]

A very good book. The vet and vet procedures are well written. I'm not sure which is the best age group for it, as an emergency cesarean on a killed deer then an amuptation of a fawn's leg may be a bit too traumatic for some young readers.

[Toni]

A cute children's story for animal lovers

[Izzy]

adorable

Very cute story.i really enjoy these stories it reminds me of another series called animal ark.their very much the same.its quite like animal ark for a new generation

[Faye Olive]

A bit sad but very good for kids and those who want to be a vet.

[Rachel Thomas]

My daughter and i got emotional to begin with but then we loved this book as it progressed

[Beth Maisie]

Great