The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon is a writer and illustrator of several
Award-winning children's books and television screenplays.
As a young man, Haddon worked with autistic individuals. This gave him the opportunity to understand the minds of children with autism.

Mark Haddon’s book begins with a 15-year-old autistic boy named Christopher Boone, who stumbles over the body of his neighbour’s dog, Wellington, impaled with a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.

Christopher knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. However he is incredibly talented in math and is studying for his A levels. Christopher is the first to take A level maths in his school. He also hates to be touched, won’t touch the colours brown and yellow, and refuses to eat his foods if they are touching.

Christopher then decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favourite fictional character, Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration and will write a book about it for his school homework.

I love this book; this is one of my most favourite books I’ve ever read. I would give this book a four out of five star rating because it is so gripping and you just want to read on and it’s fun to read. It’s funny when he says “Terry, who is the older brother of Francis, who is at school, said I would only get a job collecting supermarket trolleys or cleaning out donkey shit at an animal sanctuary and they didn’t let spazzers drive rockets that cost billions of pounds.”. Also I like that it has a twist in the story and cliff-hangers wanting you to keep reading.


“EXCEPTIONAL by any standards...”
Sunday telegraph

“Superbly realised…
A funny book as well as a sad book...
BRILLIANT”
Guardian

By JW Yr9