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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

Pobby and Dingan

Ben Rice

Hardcover | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 1645 Users | 224 Reviews

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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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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)

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This book is an absolute treasure. Do not miss.Also check out the movie based on this novella, Opal Dreams. Exquisite.

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.

What an utterly delightful little book. I had an imaginary friend as a child. His name was Rudi and he was my husband. I was 3. He only showed up when I was in the bathtub. My brothers used to tease me.Now I have an imaginary friend. I'm 53. Her name is Ruthe (or bumma). She's my mom and she's still teaching me how to live a good life.

This novel thats actually a novella is a great short-story! Joke aside, I cannot begin to hail this marvelous, marvelous little miracle. Sure, the book is short (took me about 70 minutes to read it in its entirely), but the way Ben Rice writes is just astonashing. Frankly, 10 pages in and I wasnt really that concerned with the story anymore, as I was mesmerized by the crafting of every sentence. Simply beautiful. Simple beauty. The fact that this is the only novel written by the author saddens

This is a charming and heartbreaking story set in the opal fields of Lightning Ridge. The author uses words with skill. We feel the hot, dusty air in our lungs, we experience the ostracism and community of spirit of small town Australia and our hearts tear in two for the unhappy little girl who has lost her friends. This book may be short, but it is potent. I highly recommend it.There is another short story included at the end of the book entitled Specks in the Sky. It is strange and confusing

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.

Kellyanne has two imaginary friends, Pobby and Dingnan. Ashmol, Kellanne's brother, thinks she should just grow up and forget about her friends. One day Kellyanne's father takes her friends to work in his opal mine with him. When he returns home, she asks where they are. Horrors!! They are lost and presumed dead.Kellyanne starts to wither away from heart sickness and worry. Ashmol concerned for his sister rounds up the whole town to look and try to find his sister's imaginary friends. Ashmol