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Product Description Digger is a very determined dog. He has started looking for the bone that he buried and he just won't stop digging. Deeper and deeper he goes, unearthing all sorts of extraordinary things - an old shoe, a coal-miner, and even an underground train. But he's also getting hungrier and hungrier -will Digger ever find something to chew on for his dinner?This large format book allows Korky Paul's wonderfully zany illustrations to be celebrated in glorious detail.'Korky Paul's contribution to children's books is very exciting. His work is crammed with humour and details, it's lively, full of movement and forces the reader to turn the page.'Books For Keeps Review "Korky Paul's contribution to children's books is very exciting. His work is crammed with humour and details, it's lively, full of movement and forces the reader to turn the page."--Books For Keeps"very entertaining! A really fun read... our favourite"--Amazon"quirky and brilliant illustrations... a humorous and imaginative story"--Waterstones.com About the Author Jonathan Long was born in Birmingham, but spent his childhood in Nottingham. He gained a degree in English Literature at Cambridge University, and now lives in Hackney, London, where he works as a copywriter for an advertising agency. He was inspired to write The Dog Who Could Dig by hismother's dog, which dug up her garden. Korky Paul was born in Zimbabwe. He began his illustration career in Greece, working on a series of educational books. Prior to being published in the UK by Oxford University Press, he worked in advertising and studied film animation in California. Hisillustrated books have won numerous awards, including the Children's Book Award on three occasions, and have been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award, also on three occasions. He now lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.