Roverandom — John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

While on holiday in 1925 four year old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire To console him his father J R R Tolkien improvised a story about Rover a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal This charming tale peopled by a sand sorcerer and a terrible dragon by the king of the sea and the Man in the Moon was Tolkien s first full length children s book written before The Hobbit Now nearly 90 years later the adventures of Rover or for reasons that become clear in the story Roverandom are published in this delightful pocket hardback edition Rich in wit and wordplay Roverandom is edited and introduced by Tolkien experts Christina Scull and Wayne G Hammond and includes Tolkien s own delightful illustrations