Tom refers to his grandfather as "Collar" because he drags him around on a lead. One day Tom decides that he will take Collar on a walk to see the puddles he named after the members of the family, but the puddles are not there. Collar insists that this is because it hasn’t rained, but Tom believes that it’s just because they haven’t been put in yet. He wanders off, leaving Collar talking to Mrs. Whitebobblehat, and comes across just the person he needs. Finally, with puddles restored to their full, family-resembling glory, Tom and Collar go home for tea.
The Puddleman FROM THE PUBLISHER Raymond Briggs--two-time winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration and author of Ug, winner of the Smarties Silver Prize--returns with this tale of a special relationship between a boy and his grandfather. One day, Tom decides that he will take his grandfather for a walk to see the puddles that are named after members of their family. Tom's grandfather tries to tell him that they won't be there, because it hasn't rained for ages. When they arrive, there are indeed no puddles. But then, Tom comes across just the person he needs--the Puddleman. Magical and utterly in tune with the richness of a child's imagination, The Puddleman is classic Briggs. Author Biography: Raymond Briggs has won numerous awards for his work. Twice winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration (for The Mother Goose Treasury and Father Christmas), he has also won the Kurt Maschler Award for Children's Book of the Year (for The Man), the British Book Awards' Best Illustrated Book of the Year (for Ethel and Ernest), and the Smarties Silver Prize (for Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age).
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