"And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it ... [+]
Jenny Moore was the first ever UK winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition and was shortlisted for the Greenhouse Funny Prize. Her numerous funny children’s books are published by Maverick and New Frontier and her psychological thrillers 'The Woman Before' and 'The Wilderness Retreat' (writing as Jennifer Moore) are published by Harper Collins. "Pupthagoras the Wonder Dog" is in Short Circuit #16, Short Édition's quarterly review.
Pupthagoras Barkimedes Brown was no ordinary dog. He was a woofety wonder-mutt with intelligent eyes and a head full of amazing ideas. Even his fleas were clever.
While normal dogs ran around thinking normal dog thoughts like, "What's that disgusting thing over there? I must stick my nose in it at once!" Pupthagoras was busy working out tricky math sums. He wrote perfect poems in his sleep and spoke fourteen different languages. Unfortunately, to human ears they all sounded the same: Bark, bark, barkety-bark. Pant pant bark.
He knew the answers to all Finn's math homework and Mum and Dad