'Dog Friday is a fresh, relaxed... Account of a boy, once bitten, who learns through humour and warmth not to be twice shy.' -- The Guardian

Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children's award with her first novel, The Exiles. Her subsequent work has achieved recognition - The Exiles at Home won the Smarties Prize, whilst Saffy's Angel, the first in the Casson Family series, won the Whitbread Award, for which the third book Permanent Rose was also shortlisted.