num_pages: 128
description: In 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach. To console him, his father, J.R.R. Tolkien, improvised a story about Rover, a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal. This charming tale, peopled by a sand-sorcerer and a terrible dragon, by the king of the sea and the Man-in-the-Moon, endured several drafts over the years. Now, more than seventy years later, the adventures of Rover are published for the first time. Rich in wit and wordplay, Roverandom is edited and introduced by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond and illustrated with Tolkien's own delightful drawings.
language: English
title: Roverandom
titlecomplete: Roverandom
genres: Middle Grade, Short Stories, Childrens, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Classics, British Literature, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 14363
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award
category: Inklings Studies
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt