Little Mabel

Little Mabel

Little Mabel (1980)
Little Mabel's Great Escape (1981)
Little Mabel Wins (1982)
Little Mabel Saves the Day (1985)
AuthorJilly Cooper
IllustratorTimothy Jaques
CountryUK
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's fiction

Little Mabel is a series of children's picture books written by English author Jilly Cooper and illustrated by Timothy Jaques. There are four books in the series: Little Mabel, Little Mabel's Great Escape, Little Mabel Wins and Little Mabel Saves the Day. All books feature the misadventures of the mongrel Mabel and her street-dog father, who is obsessed with dustbins. Based on Cooper's love of mongrels, the books were all generally favourably reviewed with Cooper's humour praised by The Bookseller, the Vancouver Sun, and the Ottawa Citizen. Two of the books, Little Mabel Wins and Little Mabel Saves the Day, featured as stories in the British children's programme Jackanory.