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Original Title:	Pobby and Dingan
ISBN:	0375411275 (ISBN13: 9780375411274)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2000), Somerset Maugham Award (2001), Lauer Lufti (2005)

Pobby and Dingan

Ben Rice

Hardcover | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 1645 Users | 224 Reviews

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Title	:	Pobby and Dingan
Author	:	Ben Rice
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	January 16th 2001 by Knopf (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Magical Realism. Young Adult

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This enchanting tale is at once a beautifully rendered narrative of childhood loss and a powerfully simple fable about the necessity of imagination.

Pobby and Dingan are Kellyanne Williamson’s best friends, maybe her only friends, and only she can see them. Kellyanne’s brother, Ashmol, can’t see them and doesn’t believe they exist anywhere but in Kellyanne’s immature imagination. Only when Pobby and Dingan disappear and Kellyanne becomes heartsick over their loss does Ashmol realize that not only must he believe in Pobby and Dingan, he must convince others to believe in them, too.


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Ratings: 3.84 From 1645 Users | 224 Reviews

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Just read the description of this if you want to be intrigued. One reviewer said "I can't imagine being on civil terms with anybody who doesn't love this book"

I just couldn't relate to it, though I know that behind (finding) a child's imaginary friends there's an entire life philosophy - if it's hard to see smth, it doesn't mean that thing doesn't exist or if you don't find smth it doesn't mean you should stop looking for it. OK, so the story is simple, innocent, childish a.s.o. Anyone can spare an hour or so to read it.P.S. Dear author, Ashmol tries too hard to sound like Holden.

Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice yeah, I read it. I think the only reason why I even finished this story was the length, 90 pages, big print; I started it and felt like I could force myself to finish it if I just shut up and pushed on. Not that I regret it, just that I dont like it.Set in opal mining country (Lightning Ridge) we follow Ashmols account of how his little sister, Kellyanne, loses her two imaginary friends, Pobby and Dingan, which sets off some very real life issues. The only way that

I've been wanting to read this book for years, and I finally goat around to doing it. It's a children's book, I think. Actually I'm not sure. It's a bit salty for kids and the ending is a shock.Pobby and Dingan, Kellyanne Williamson's make believe friends, disappear one day when Kellyanne's dad forgets to pick them up after work and bring them home, and Kellyanne gets sicker and sicker the longer Pobby and Dingan go missing. To save the day, Ashmol, Kellyanne's brother, has the whole town turn

Awesome little story. When I read it I passed it around the office. It got thru about 15 people and then lost! How do people do that? Just take a book and never return it??? It is about a little girl in Australia who has imaginary friends. She becomes quite ill and her brother must learn to believe in her imaginary friends in order for her to get better. Lovely!

Pobby and Dingan are just Kellyanne's imaginary friends. It's kind of annoying how everyone humors her, but whatever. Or so thinks Ashmol, Kellyanne's older brother, at the outset of this short and charming novel.Set in an Australian outback mining town, "Pobby and Dingan" takes a dark turn when the children's dad pretends to take the imaginary friends down into his opal mine one day. He forgets to bring them back, and Kellyanne becomes frantic, stops eating, grows ill and begins to fade away.