Bella

By Jean Ure

Four stray dogs all with a story to tell of their rescue and how they came to live at Munchy Flats Cottage with their people, Flossie and Jo.

The second title in this new series. Bella is a pedigree – her real name being Princess Isadora of Bude! She’s a lapdog and spoilt rotten by her elderly owner. When her owner is taken into hospital, Bella has to go and live with another family and is bullied and teased by the other dogs. Bella’s hair gets matted, her ribbon torn and she’s very unhappy. She runs back to the hospital where she thinks her owner is, but sadly her owner has died. Bella has to learn to live with her new bullying siblings. One day, out in the park Bella is bullied by a pack of dogs and is left cowering in the bushes. Her new owners decide that they must find Bella a new home and they take her to Munchy Flats Cottage where she settles in nicely with Buster… A heartwarming ending to a story about bullying dogs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: Jan 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9780008116729

Jean Ure

Jean Ure was born in Surrey and, when growing up, knew that she was going to be a writer or a ballet dancer. She began writing when she was six years old and had her first book published while she was still at school. Jean is a vegan and animal lover. She lives with her husband, seven dogs and four cats in a 300 year old house in Croydon.

Book preview

We are the dogs of Munchy Flats. We live here, with our people.

I am Buster, and I am the boss dog! I was here first.

Well, first after the cats. There are two cats in this house. They are called Whiskers and Panda. They are very small, and soft, and furry. Our people call them the Furry Purries. But they have very sharp pins hidden in their paws.

Dogs have to beware of a cat’s pins. Sometimes they use them to prrrrink! at us as we walk by. And then they run off with their tails in the air, and we chase them! Round the house, up the stairs. Into the bedroom, on to the beds.

We love a good chase!

We never hurt them. Sometimes I might sit on one – by mistake, of course! But we are all the best of friends. And we all have a story to tell, about how we came to be here.

This one is Bella’s.

Bella came from a very posh family. Both her mother and her father were pedigrees, which means that Bella is a pedigree, too. Her real name is Princess Isadora of Bude. She has papers to prove it!

Me, I’m just a mongrel. Some people say that mongrels are the best. Naturally, I agree with them! But Bella was always very proud of being a