Cherry Picked Games
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Ellie
Starring dog
Ellie
Comments
Something of a rarity in the database, Hair of the Dog is a boardgame where, to quote from the production company's site (see Links below) you the player must "take over a dog-friendly pub in your quest to pet the most dogs. Learn how to properly pet the pups and collect a variety of pets". But, since it's a pub, "you also need to be a good patron of the establishment by buying drinks".
So in short, it's a game where you drink and pet dogs — obviously virtually. Unless you happen to have drinks and dogs on hand in which case... Anyway, I digress. The reason why the game is in CSDb is of course that among the dogs available for petting there is (at least one) Pembroke — it's even on the box cover, twice! This is not actually that much of a surprise when you dog into the games' background a bit: the Corgi in question is in fact drawn from a photo of the game's visual designer & illustrator Jules Naujoks' Pembroke Ellie Furbottom (and is also named Ellie in the game).
I supported the game when it was on Kickstarter so I have the print-and-play rules. Maybe some day I'll actually try to play, in which case I'll also promise to post a review.
Links
About the game @ Cherry Picked Games
Has Anyone Seen Winnie and Jean?
Category
Books
Year
2007
Country
USA
Published by
Bloomsbury Publishing (first printing)
ISBN
1582349991, 9781582349992 (first printing)
Written and illustrated by
E. B. McHenry
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring roles
Winnie & Jean
Comments
Linda L. Walkins writes in School Library Journal: "Two incorrigible Corgis lead the police on a merry chase after they escape from their yard by digging under the fence. [...] While Winnie and Jean enjoy their freedom, their owners, two freckle-faced children dressed in cozy yellow sweaters, search high and low for their lost pets, expressing their worries and concern to Officer Dean. [...] Told in verse, the story quickly becomes repetitive as every line rhymes with Jean. However, the richly colored gouache illustrations enhance the narrative, lending an old-fashioned air and a bit of humor to the tale. The illustrations of the children looking for the animals by the sea and in the meadow are particularly striking."
According to the author's (subsequently removed) interview on I was a Highlights kid website, the book "is about two runaway dogs (Corgis), and also about my twin sister and me and how we always stay together no matter what."
Not much to add to that, it's another childrens' picture book featuring Corgis in a prominent role. Having owned a Pembroke who had somewhat similar habbits, I can symphatize with the human protagonists (-:)
Links
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2014-2017
Country
USA
Written by
Joie Foster (née Brown)
Illustrated by
the author
Published by
Hey Joie Comics (self published)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring Dog
Rylee
Comments
The premise of this comic series created by the illustrator and American Dad! assistant director Joie Foster is that a "small corgi has a big secret – she’s a magical girl superhero trying to save the world!" (quote from the author's home page, see Links below).
Apparently the heroine is rather heavy influenced by the artist's own dog Rylee, to the point of sharing the same name (and incidentally, the fictitious human owner – or sidekick, as the corgi protagonist calls her – of the fictitious Rylee is called Joie as well). As to the comic itself, it looks to be a lighthearted superhero sendoff involving talking animals and having strong ties to better known Sailor Moon manga; this last according to Pop Goes the Darke Raven reviews (see Links below) – I'm not qualified to comment on the issue.
So far, three episodes of 12 pages each have been published but with no clear conclusion in the third one, there might be more to come at some point. As the total number of pages in the series is currently less than that of an average European-style comics album, I've also made this a single entry instead of three.
Links
AKA
A Visitor at the Palace (originally published by Harper Collins for Kindle under this title)
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
Georgie Crawley
Published by
Avon
ISBN
0008263132 (ISBN13: 9780008263133)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring Dog
Henry
Comments
Henry the Pembroke is mistaken for a royal Corgi by the Queen's Guard and whisked off to Buckingham Palace, just in time to "help" in Christmas preparations... "A feel-good festive read to curl up with", according to Amazon.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
ISBN
0553392492 (ISBN13: 9780553392494)
Published by
Bantam
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Number #26 in the very long running cozy mystery series Mrs. Murphy Mysteries. As with numbers #24 and #24, the murder mystery in the book ties into events in the late 1700's and thus the book alternates between the protagonists — including the Pembroke Tee Tucker — trying to stop present day killings and a historical view of Virginia and the life of slaves.
The author's current approach to writing means that there is less Corgi apperances in the books than there was in the earlier ones. And one review at GoodReads (see Links below) even says the animals don't even contribute much to the story anyway, which is probably not a good thing for you who peruse CSDb in hopes of finding Corgi-related reading.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2011
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
Bantam Books (first printing)
ISBN
0553807080
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Number 19 in the long-running Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series finds the amateur sleuth Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen suddenly ailing in health. The murder plot, somewhat unsuprisingly, also involves dead nurses. As usual, "sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and that incorrigible corgi Tee Tucker" (quoted from GoodReads, see 'Links' below) have to help Harry to sniff out the clues and solve the case.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2002
Country
USA
Published by
Zebra
ISBN
0821773704 (ISBN13: 9780821773703)
Written by
Annie Smith
Corgi breed
Unknown
Starring role
A puppy belonging to an injured orphan child
Comments
From Books In Print website: "[Kindergarten teacher Sally Foster's] best friend and her husband are killed by a drunk driver and she is named guardian of their teenage son, Micah, who is injured in the crash. They slowly adapt to each other, but with Micah comes his dog, and Sally must try to overcome her longstanding dislike of canines because the only emotion disabled and orphaned Micah feels is for his puppy". Apparently, they have to call in a dog trainer to help with the Corgi (presumably it's a Pem but information is scant with this one), and he and Sally eventually end up together. Sounds like a sugary romance clothed as a dramatic human relations story, doesn't it, but who cares if it does have an important Corgi character?
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Country
USA
Written by
Ayla Stardragon
Art by
Ayla Stardragon
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Ichabod
Comments
Ichabod is a little Pembroke who is very optimistic indeed. With his various (not quite equally optimistic) friends, he faces each day with indefatigable energy and joy. Drawn in a cutesy chibi style, this is a silly but quite refreshingly positive and funny web comic.
Originally, the comic consisted of single pages depicting random incidents but eventually, in early 2019, it turned into a series with an actual plot published under the title Corgi Quest (not to be confused with another web comic of the same or the computer game with a similar name). However, the author/artist was disappointed with the reception of the series and currently (December 2020), CQ is "in limbo". A conscise collection of the CQ story appearts to be difficult to locate, but Ichabod's more random adventures continue intermittently on his Tapas.io page (see Links below).
Links
- Ayla Stardragon's Ichabod gallery page @ DeviantArt (where she uses a different nickname)
- The comic's homepage @ Tapas.io
- Part of the series at least is also available @ Tumblr
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Country
USA
Written by
Sonia Oppenheim
Art by
Sonia Oppenheim
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Rosa
Comments
It Happens Every Day was a web comic about a fairly regular family, the Brenners, accounting the odd and funny (in hindsight at least) things that can happen when there's a bunch of kids and a Pembroke Corgi to raise a ruckus. The last known comic appeared Monday Feb 16, 2004 and as the site has since died IHED appears to have suffered the fade fate of many a web comic... What remains can be found in Links below.
Links
www.familycomic.com @ web.archive.org
Category
Books
Year
2013
Country
USA
Published by
Henflower Press
ISBN
0985731354 (ISBN13: 9780985731359)
Written by
Anita Fellicelli
Illustrated by
Lindsay Merrill
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Izzy and Poe
Comments
According to the author @ GoodReads (see Links below), this is "a children's book (an early reader) for ages 4-8 about two Corgis looking for adventure at Fort Funston when they meet a mischievous parrot who says he can show them how to fly". The art appears to be quite realistic — at least in regards to the appearance of the Corgis — for a children's book.
Links
Category
Books
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
James Herriot
Corgi breed
Unknown
Starring role
Skipper
Comments
Jingo & Skipper is one of James Herriot's many dog short stories that has also been published as a chapter in Vet in a Spin. According to Jen Prince it's a "heartwarming tale [...] about a Bull Terrier named Jingo, and his friend Skipper the Corgi. Skipper wasted away after Jingo died, until his family decided to have Herriot end his misery. Unable to face life without a dog, they bought a new Bull Terrier puppy (aptly named Jingo Two), in whom Skipper found his new will to live — narrowly avoiding his death". I can also personally vouch for this indeed being a lovely little tale, somewhat bitter sweet but with a happy ending.
As well as in the aforementioned book, this short story also appears on two audio books (cassettes) from Dh Audio:- "Jingo & Skipper", year 1995 (ISBN: 0886467500)
- "Digger and Other Stories", year unknown (ISBN: 0886466997)
Category
Books
Year
1972 (1st edition)
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
Enid Blyton
Published by
Sandle's (1st edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
Aside of the fact that the titular dog is a Pembroke (at least in the book cover), I couldn't find much info on this illustrated children's book. This edition published in Sandle's Tulip Colour Books series contains just this one short story from the 1940's, which has orignally been published in Enid Blyton's Jolly Story Book.
Links
Book info @ The Enid Blyton Society
Category
Books
Year
2016
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
A SIN
B01CWGKL4Y
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
Karen Harbert's dog show whodunit series Murder at the Dog Show continues with a camping trip to the desert (duh!) that goes awry. Luckily the human protagonists have Monty the Cardigan to help them out of the pickle once again.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
1794678808 (ISBN13: 9781794678804)
A SIN
B07KDXRBWZ
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
The 10th book in the Cozy Corgi Mysteries series has Winifred Page and Watson join an assortment of family and friends to celebrate her uncles' anniversary in an inn in the mountains of Colorado. As they get snowed in, they find that unfortunately but predictably, the said assortment also includes a murderer...
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Full title
The Kindness of Strangers - The Winnie Chronicles - Book One
Category
Books
Year
2012 (1st edition)
Country
USA
Written by
Sandy Woolworth
Illustrated by
Carol Tippit Woolworth
ISBN
0985264500
Published by
Tipworth Press (1st edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Winnie Dumont
Comments
This appears to be yet another illustrated Corgi book for all ages and also the first in what looks to be conceived as at least a four-part series, so keep an eye out for sequels...
The Kindness of Strangers is somewhat based on the author's own dog (also called Winnie) and he informs me that the protagonists of the book, "a paralyzed Corgi named Winnie [...] travels by air to England only to have the plane crash. She survives, meets Queen Elizabeth, becomes a media star, and tells anyone interested what it's like to live life as a Corgi, especially a Corgi in a wheel chair". The book also features a pseudo-scientific explanation for how a Corgi can tell its story in the form of a computer program DOGSPEAK.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2013
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Published by
NAL
ISBN
045123961X (ISBN13: 9780451239617)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
Book two in the A Southern Quilting Mystery series.
The amateur sleuth and quilting enthusiast, retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman finds herself in trouble again as she discovers an apparent accident involving a car with faulty brakes is no accident after all... Presumably Noo-noo also has some role to play in the story, even if one reviewer at Goodreads (see Links below) complained that "there is too little of the Corgi".
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Full title
Korgi Book 1: Sprouting Wings!
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2007 (1st edition)
Country
USA
Created by
Ann & Christian Slade
Written and illustrated by
Christian Slade
ISBN
978-1-891830-90-7 (1st edition)
Published by
Top Shelf Productions (1st edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke (sort of)
Starring role
Sprout
Comments
A wordless fantasy comic book for all ages, Korgi (Book 1): Sprouting Wings! is — according to the book's jacket sleeve — "a gorgeously illustrated woodland fantasy about a young girl, Ivy, her Korgi cub, Sprout, and their amazing adventures in Korgi Hollow." The story is set in an alternative fantasy world and strictly speaking, the titular Korgis are — despite their appearance — not really Pembroke Welsh Corgis. As Slade has gone on record saying they are very much inspired by his own Pembrokes, I deem them quite close enough to merit the book's inclusion in this database.
You can read my more in-depth review here.
For more corgi-related work by Christian Slade, see the series page.
Links
Full title
Korgi Book 2: The Cosmic Collector
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2008 (1st edition)
Country
USA
Created by
Ann & Christian Slade
Written and illustrated by
Christian Slade
ISBN
978-1-60309-010-0 (1st edition)
Published by
Top Shelf Productions (1st edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke (sort of)
Starring role
Sprout
Comments
The second part of Christian Slade's wordless fantasy comic book series for all ages,
Korgi Book 2 continues the adventures of the fairy-like Ivy and her faithful Korgi companion, Sprout. Korgis
can be best described as a fantasy version of Pembrokes and can have surprising, apparently magical, powers.
You can read my more in-depth review here.
For more Corgi-related work by Christian Slade, see the series page.
Links
Full title
Korgi Book 3: A Hollow Beginning
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2011 (1st edition)
Country
USA
Created by
Ann & Christian Slade
Written and illustrated by
Christian Slade
ISBN
978-1-60309-062-9 (1st edition)
Published by
Top Shelf Productions (1st edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke (kinda)
Starring role
Sprout
Comments
The adventures of the fairy-like Ivy and her Korgi companion Sprout continue in this third installment of Christian Slade's wordless fantasy comic book series for all ages. Korgis are a fantasy version of Pembrokes and have surprising magical powers, the least of which is not their ability to inspire and help those among them by simply being there.
You can read my more in-depth review here.
For more Corgi-related work by Christian Slade, see the series page.
Links
Full title
Korgi Book 4: The Problem with Potions
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2016
Country
USA
Created by
Ann & Christian Slade
Written and illustrated by
Christian Slade
ISBN
1603094032 (ISBN13: 9781603094030)
Published by
Top Shelf Productions
Corgi breed
Pembroke (sort of)
Starring role
Sprout
Comments
This is (somewhat obviously) the fourth instalment of Christian Slade's wordless fantasy comic book series for all ages. My review of the book can be found here.
Links
Full title
Korgi Book 5: End of Seasons
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2021 (1st edition)
Country
USA
Created by
Ann & Christian Slade
Written and illustrated by
Christian Slade
ISBN
9781603094863 (ISBN10: 1603094865)
Published by
Top Shelf Productions
Corgi breed
Pembroke (sort of)
Starring role
Sprout
Comments
Christian Slade's Korgi series comes to its thrilling conclusion in this the fifth book. You can read my more in-depth review here.
For more corgi-related work by Christian Slade, see the series page.
Links
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2017
Country
USA
Created by
Ann & Christian Slade
Written and illustrated by
Christian Slade
ASIN
B06ZZPWKRD
Published by
Top Shelf Productions
Corgi breed
Pembroke (sort of)
Starring role
Sprout
Comments
This collection of short wordless comics published on Amazon Kindle is a companion to Christian Slade's Korgi series and features further adventures of its main protagonists Sprout the Korgi and his mistress, the fairy-like Ivy. In additon to all the shorts published in Owly and Friends, it also contains a previously unpublished story Cloud Cat.
Links
Category
Books
Year
2013
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
ISBN
0345530489 (ISBN13: 9780345530486)
Published by
Bantam
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series marches on, disregarding the often somewhat lukewarm enthusiasm from the readers and the presumed age of the animal protagonists alike. So once again the human main character Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen's cat, Mrs. Murphy, and her Pembroke sidekick Tee Tucker are needed to help in solving some gruesome murders, this time occuring around Halloween time.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Original title
Petite Histoire d'un Petit Chien
Category
Books
Year
1970 (this edition), original 1964
Country
USA (this edition), original France
Published by
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co (this edition), original Hachette impr. Brodard et Taupin
ASIN
B0006C09IU (this edition), original B0014VL01M
Written by
Rene Guillot
Translated by
Joan Selby-Lowndes
Art by
Wallace Tripp (this edition)
Corgi breed
Unknown
Comments
From The Columbia River Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club book reviews: "The story of a Corgi puppy who gets lost in the woods and is adopted by a mother fox. He learns to survive in the wild as a fox, but is found at Christmas by humans and adopted by a little girl. The Corgi later goes back to the woods to help his injured fox mother, who eventually comes to live at the farm woodshed under the care of the Corgi's human family". Appeared in USA as Weekly Reader Children's Book Club (Z877).
Confusingly, the original French edition and the first English edition both have a Dachshund as the dog instead of a Corgi — apparently Ms. Selby-Lowndes (or possible Mr. Tripp) has decided on a breed swap. And to add to the potentail confusion, despite having the same title as the Disney TV-movie and almost (but not quite) certainly featuring a Pembroke protagonist, the book isn't telling the same story. Furthermore, there are several completely unrelated books (and possibly other media) with the same title but without any Corgis in any editions or versions.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2006
Country
USA
Written by
Heather Forest
Art by
Susan Gaber
Published by
August House (first printing edition)
ISBN
0874837952 (ISBN13: 9780874837957)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A "frisky" Pembroke puppy fond of playing with a blue blanket
Comments
According to Amazon.com, this is a "rhyming version of the workhorse story" for "PreSchool-Grade 2" (or children 4 to 8 years of age). The lazy animals of the story are a black-and-white kitten, a mouse and, most imporantly, a Corgi puppy (the breed doesn't seem to be mentioned in the text though so one assumes it's an edition specific thing). Unlike in many versions of the old tale, they are given a chance to remedy their layabout ways in the end and parttake of the cake baked by the industrious titular hen.
Cathy Rathbone informs us that the acrylic illustrations of Ms. Gaber actually look quite nice when seen on paper, so this may well have some appeal to adults as well.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Country
USA
Written by
Pam Bliss
Art by
Pam Bliss
Published by
Paradise Valley Comics
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Rose
Comments
According to the long defunct Paradise Valley Comics site (see Links below for possibly the last version with actual content), LotTT features "Adventure Stories of Time Travel, both Thrilling & Educational, for the Entertainment of Readers of All Ages. With Alexei Petrov, Miss Katy Davis, Nakht-Min, and Rose the corgi". LotTT appeared in at least the following Paradise Valley comic books and collections: Atomic Wonder Comics volume #1: The Phantom Airship, B-36 volumes #1 through #3, Dog & Pony Show (Paperback - 180 pages; published July 12, 2001; ISBN 0970944209) and of course Logbooks Of The Travelling Travelall volume #1.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Comic
Country
USA
Artists
Todd Clark (originally with Steve Dickenson)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Jinx (2011, 2014), unknown (2003)
Comments
Lola is a comic about a "cantacerous, outspoken and self-assured" little old lady, with a bit of "Rose Kennedy and Howard Stern" in her, according to the comic's official site of yore. Having (very) cursorily perused the entire run of the series from 2001 up to the end of 2018, I have found all of three appearances of Pembroke Welsh Corgis in it:
So, in the big picture, this definitely ranks as a minor sighting. All the same, apart from newspapers and the 'net, Lola has also been published in collection books so you should be able to pick the above strips in them if you want.
Links
All Lola dailies @ GoComics
Original title
The Twenty-third Psalm
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1965 (original), 1980 (reissue)
Illustrated by
Tasha Tudor
Published by
St. Onge (original), Philomel (reissue)
ISBN
0399207562 (ISBN13: 9780399207563) — Philomel edition
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
Tasha Tudor's ubiquitous Pembroke Corgis make a small appearance in this book, according to Annette Sheppard. I've listed it under the Philomel reissue title as this edition is bound to be more easy to find. Several of Mrs. Tudor's other books also include pictures of Pembrokes, see the Corgiville series for more details.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2006 (1st printing)
Country
Finland
ISBN
951-796-451-X (1st printing)
Published by
Atena Kustannus
Written by
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
Corgi breed
Unknown
Starring role
A Corgi seen at the house of the famous writer Martti Talvimaa
Comments
In this the first novel of the acclaimed Finnish speculative fiction writer Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, dogs besiege the house of the famous writer Martti Talvimaa. Among their number is a Corgi, as we are told in all of one single sentence. The dog pack has an important role to play in the story however.
Och samma på Finska:
Novellikokoelmamaisesta nimestään huolimatta Lumikko ja yhdeksän muuta on arvostetun spefikirjailija Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläisen ensimmäinen romaani. Mainosten mukaan "fantastista realismia" edustavan teoksen yhtenä sivujuonena kuuluisan kirjailijan Martti Talvimaan talo joutuu koiralauman piirittämäksi. Sivulla 188 saamme tietää, että niiden joukossa on myös corgi:
"Ella lähti laskeutumaan portaita ja tömisteli saadakseen koirat väistymään.
- Dalmatialainen, corgi, labradorinnoutaja ja sekarotuinen pystykorva, luultavasti hirvikoiran ja suomenpystykorvan risteytys, kirjailija Talvimaa alkoi luetella hänen takanaan, asiantuntemuksestaan ylpeänä.
Koirat jäivät pimeyden reunalle."
Corgia ei sittemmin mainita, vaikka koirat pysyvätkin mukana tarinassa aivan loppuratkaisuun saakka ja niillä on siinä tuikitärkeä rooli.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2001 (originally published 1997)
Country
United Kingdom
Published by
Egmont UK
ISBN
0749746459 (ISBN13: 9780749746452)
Written by
Joyce Dunbar
Illustrated by
Jan McCafferty
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
A children's book (recomended for ages 4-8) in Blue Banana series about a girl who gets the notion she's the Queen. Presumably that's why she has a Pembroke tailing her, commenting on the proceedings. The lines are spot on — if my Pembroke could have talked, he would have sounded very much like the one in the book! Very funny even for a little more mature reader.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
1731191324 (ISBN13: 9781731191328)
A SIN
B07HR2VX3X (Kindle edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
In this the ninth book of the rapidly expanding Cozy Corgi Mysteries series, Christmas has come to Estes Park, Colorado. Unfortunately, not everybody is in a jolly mood and in no time at all, the amateur sleuth Winifred Page and her Pembroke Watson are once more called upon to investigate a murder.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2000
Country
USA
ISBN
0805061789 (1st edition)
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated (1st edition)
Written by
Loreen Leedy
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
A blue merle Cardi seen in a dog show scene
Comments
From a Corgi-L posting: "Penny is a Boston Terrier who dreams of going to a big dog show. Among the dogs shown in the ring she imagines is a beautiful blue merle [...] Cardi". A borderline inclusion, this book sounds to be more of a textbook teaching children the basic concepts of map making and reading than a deliberate work of fiction.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
ISBN
9781796921601 (ISBN10: 1796921602)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
The 14th book in Karen Harbert's mystery series Murder at the Dog Show has the human protagonist, mental health administrator and Cardigan Welsh Corgi breeder Jennifer Brooks captured by the villain of the piece. Luckily her devoted Cardigan Welsh Corgi Monty is there to help.
Links
Editions of the book @ GoodReads
Meddlesome Money
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
9781088449240 (ISBN10: 1088449247)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Comments
Hugely prolific Ms. Abbot treats us the 15th book in the series of bookshop and bakery -themed cozy mystery series Cozy Corgi Mysteries (the name kind of gives the genre away...). This time around, the amateur sleuth Winifred Page and her Pembroke Watson are out to clear some reputations tarnished by a local newspaper's gossip column when they — quite expectedly — run into another murder...
Links
Editions of the book @ GoodReads
Medium Rare
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
ISBN
9781072555568 (ISBN10: 1072555565)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
Book 15 in Karen Harbert's dog show whodunit series Murder at the Dog Show finds Jennifer Brooks and her champion Cardigan Monty investigating an unpleasant double act of an unethical veterinarian and a pet-grief-therapist-slash-animal-medium. Presumably there is also a murder to expect as that's kind of a given for detective fiction.
Links
Editions of the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
1957
Country
USA
Published by
Morrow
ASIN
B0007E46KE
Written by
Margaret Johnson
Corgi breed
Pembroke (assumed from the book's cover)
Starring role
Megan
Comments
From The Columbia River Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club book reviews: "Megan is a British farm Corgi, learning to herd from her mother. Then Mrs. Gray shows up and convinces the farmer to sell her the puppy so she can take her back to America to compete in dog shows [...] Mrs. Gray finally accepts that Megan is not happy on the show circuit, and lets [a] rancher take her off to herd cows on the ranch". One more out-of-print Corgi oriented book for industrious people to dig up.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Book
Year
2006
Country
USA
Published by
Bloomsbury USA Childrens
ISBN
158234678X (ISBN13: 9781582346786)
Written by
Karen Karbo
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
This is the second book in the Minerva Clark Mysteries series. The protagonist is "a 7th grade girl detective" described in Kirkus Reviews as "a cross between Nancy Drew and Adrian Monk" who solves crimes with the help from her pet ferret, Jupiter. The series, obviously aimed at tween female demograqphic, seems to have gotten fairly good reviews but apparently only three books have been written, at least so far.
The plot teaser for Goes to the Dogs from the official site (see Links below) says that "Minerva Clark has never liked popular, bratty Chelsea de Guzman. But when Chelsea pleads with Minerva to help her locate a missing diamond, the prospect of a new mystery is just too irresistible to pass up [and] before long Minerva is doing what she does best: getting into trouble while getting to the bottom of things. And whether that includes digging through a day's worth of trash, tangling with some crooked animal shelter workers, dodging three mischievous Corgis, or tracking a carrier pigeon with intestinal problems, Minerva is determined to get her man — or his best friend..."
Given above and the fact that a Pembroke has even gotten on the cover of the book, I'm tentatively giving this a "major sighting" status. It's not very likely that there are any Corgis in the other two books however.
Links
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2016
Country
USA
Written by
Chelsea Cain
Illustrated by
Kate Niemczyk, Rachelle Rosenberg, Joëlle Jones etc.
Published by
Marvel Comics
Corgi breed
Pembroke, Mercorgi (yep — read the story to see what that is (-:))
Starring Role
Ka-Zar the Pembroke + a large number of others
Comments
This short-lived comic (it ran for only eight issues because of officially undisclosed reasons) about a female superhero/spy has loads of Corgi sightings on offer. You can read my review of the series here.
Links
Mockingbird single issues @ GoodReads (see the review for other publication details)
Category
Books
Year
2021
Country
USA
Written by
Jennifer Hawkins
Published by
Berkeley Books
ISBN
9780593197103 (ISBN10: 0593197100)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Oliver
Comments
Book two in Jennifer Hawkins' Chatty Corgi Mysteries. As in the first one, we find ourselves in Corwnwall, United Kingdom and in the company of the tea shop owner Emma Reed and (more importantly) her talking Pembroke Oliver. Yes, in these books the Corgi actually talks — as in, so that his owner at least can understand, even if nobody else can. Even with these deviations from the standard cozy mystery fare, there is of course a murderer on the loose that only our intrepid protagonists can flush out, so it should not be too outlandish for fans of the genre.
Links
Editions of the book listed @GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
J.A. Whiting
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
ISBN
9781547165834 (ISBN10: 1547165839)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring roles
Bear and Lady
Comments
The third volume in Claire Rollins Mysteries series finds the series titular amateur sleuth utilizing her possibly paranormal power of intuition and the help of her Pembrokes Bear and Lady to solve "a confusing mystery of murder and deception" (according to the book's blurb found on GoodReads, see Links below).
Links
Category
Books
Year
1994
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
American Artists, Inc. / Bantam Books
ISBN
0553081403 (ISBN13: 9780553081404)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Number 3 in the series of Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries books. Postmistress-cum-sleuth Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen's cat, the titular Mrs. Murphy, and her Pembroke sidekick Tee Tucker have to work out how a murder commited 170 years ago ties to a murder commited in the present day. From author's official site: "With the help of Harry's corgi, Tee Tucker, and Pewter, the corpulent cat from the nearby grocery, Mrs. Murphy is soon digging up the roots of old hatreds and unearthing the tragic consequences of human desire".
Trivia: by this book, ms. Brown has apparently decided that Tee Tucker doesn't have a tail after all but instead "a little snub". So very likely she's supposed to be a regular American docked Pembroke even though the first two books of the series, Wish You Were Here and Rest In Pieces, mention her tail which might imply otherwise.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
1998
Country
USA
Published by
Bantam Books
ISBN
0553099701 (ISBN13: 9780553099706)
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Number 6 in the series of Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries books, in which Postmistress-cum-sleuth Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen's cat, the titular Mrs. Murphy, and her Pembroke sidekick Tee Tucker solve murders commited in the small town of Crozet, Virginia. This time it's about false obituaries that somebody's determined to turn into reality. From Barnes&Noble: "Only Mrs. Murphy, the canny tiger cat, senses the pure malice behind the act. And when a second false obit appears, this time of a Hollywood has-been who is Roscoe Fletcher's best friend, Mrs. Murphy invites her friends, the corgi Tee Tucker, and fat cat Pewter, to do a bit of sleuthing".
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
1998
Country
USA
Published by
Bantam Books
ISBN
0553096044 (ISBN13: 9780553096040)
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Number 5 in the series of Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries books, in which Postmistress-cum-sleuth Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen's cat, the titular Mrs. Murphy, and her Pembroke sidekick Tee Tucker solve murders commited in the small town of Crozet, Virginia. From Barnes&Noble: "The murder of a jockey at a fashionable Virginia thoroughbred horse race sets experienced animal sleuths Mrs. Murphy (a cat) and Tucker (a dog) into motion... Their owner [...] and the county sheriffs are also hard at work on the case, but it is this pair of detectives, assisted by their animal friends, who first learn that a disappearance years before was actually a murder".
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2012
Country
USA
Written by
Leslie McDonald
Published by
Down the Aisle Promotions
ISBN
0615638341 (ISBN13: 9780615638348)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Beamer
Comments
This slim book appears to be one of those "based on true story" works where it's ostensibly the Corgi that's telling the tale. In this case the "narrator", Beamer, is a fluffy Pembroke working at a horse farm.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2009
Country
Suomi Finland
Written by
Tittamari Marttinen
Art by
Christel Rönns
Published by
Tammi
ISBN
9513150380, 9789513150389
Corgi breed
Unknown, probably Cardigan
Starring dogs
Nepi (or Neptunus) and Emma
Comments
This is number #1 of an apparently and unfortunately aborted series of books about Nepi the Corgi from a prolific Finnish children's author.
Nepi is a sable Corgi boy of an undisclosed breed &mdahs; in fact this book doesn't even say he's a Corgi although it's explicitly stated in the next book (where his real name Neptunus also is mentioned). I think he's meant to be a Cardigan. He also meets another Corgi in the book, a bitch names Emma, again of undisclosed breed, possibly a Pembroke.
The title of the book translates to "the Best Dogsitter" and the plotline indeed concerns getting the best possible dogsitter to mind Nepi while his owner is at work. I'm not aware of a English translation for this although the author's official site used to report the publication rights have been sold to China.
Och samma på Finska: kirjan arvostelu.
Links
Category
Books
Year
2010
Country
Suomi Finland
Written by
Tittamari Marttinen
Art by
Christel Rönns
Published by
Tammi
ISBN
9513156214, 9789513156213
Corgi breed
Unknown, probably Cardigan
Starring dogs
Nepi (or Neptunus) and Emma
Comments
This is number #2 of an apparently and unfortunately aborted series of books about Nepi the Corgi from a prolific Finnish children's author. In this book, it's revealed Nepi is not a show dog and so he has to prove his mettle by other means instead. Nepi's real name (Neptunus) is also disclosed, as well as the fact that he is in fact a Corgi: judging by the pictures I'd say he's more specifically a sable Cardigan. His female friend Emma, possibly a Pembroke, also appears very briefly in this book. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be an English translation in the works.
Och samma på Finska: kirjan arvostelu.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1997
Country
United Kingdom
Published by
Macmillan
ISBN
0333722442 (ISBN13: 9780333722442)
Written by
Peter F. Hamilton
Corgi breed
Unknown
Comments
This the second volume in the massive and overblown space opera trilogy Night's Dawn features the tiniest of references to Corgis. In the sequence on a planet where a kind of Victorian class hierarchy is being maintained, one of the nobility is given that extra flair of British-style aristrocracy by adding a couple of Corgis — begging food from the table, of course (-:) — to the scene.
While this trilogy is being hailed by some as one of the best series in the genre, I found Night's Dawn to be quite tedious, especially in its frequent, detailed and graphic descriptions of violence and sex. All that multilation and copulation does get old after ca. 3000 pages. Read Hamilton's Fallen Dragon instead, basically the same bottom line with much less pomp and circumstance... Plus it's shorter too, by a lot. Doesn't have Corgis in it though.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2012
Country
USA
Written by
Edie Claire
Published by
Createspace
ISBN
1475193920 (ISBN13: 9781475193923)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dog
Chewy
Comments
As I have noted before, many mystery authors specialising in the so-called "cozy mysteries" appear to have a soft spot for Corgis. This book is number 6 in Leigh Koslow Mysteries series, written a full decade after the previous installment.
Since the Pem has made it to the cover of this one, as well as into the title, I've tentatively given this a "major sighting" status even though I've not been able to confirm the extent of the dog's involvement in the murder plot around which the book is constructed. One reviewer @ Amazon.com does comment that the "dogs have as much personality as do the other characters. No silly discussions among themselves you understand, they just behave as they are meant to, and add much to the stories." So even if the Corgi turns out to be a bit player it might be worth your while to check this one out.
As far as I'm aware, the other books in the series do not feature Corgis.
Links
Author's home page
Info and reviews @ Goodreads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1975
Written by
Clement Clarke Moore
Illustrated by
Tasha Tudor
Published by
Rand Mcnally
ISBN
0528821814 (ISBN13: 9780528821813)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
Clement Clarke Moore wrote "The Night Before Christmas" for his children in 1822. Unsurprisinly, it has been printed again and again in different versions and illustrated by untold number of artists. This is apparently the first edition illustrated by Tasha Tudor though, and hence probably the first if not the only to include Pembroke Welsh Corgis in it.
From Publisher's Weekly: "[Tasha Tudor] whisks readers to New England, this time to a quiet spot in early-19th-century Vermont. Her cozy, nostalgic watercolor scenes, often lit by candle or roaring fire, are viewed as if through a large oval peephole. Loose ink lines and slightly hazy figures succeed in creating an aura of holiday fantasy. A spunky, elfin Saint Nicholas, a menagerie of perky pets (including the Corgis, of course) and a very busy family of mice partying beneath the floorboards add a sense of fun".
Several of Mrs. Tudor's other books also include pictures of Pembrokes, see the Corgiville series for more details.
Links
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
ISBN
0345530500, 9780345530509 (1st printing)
Published by
Bantam
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
In this the 23rd (or the 22nd, depending on who's counting) volume of Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series, "[w]inter has come to Crozet, Virginia, bringing with it a fresh blanket of snow. [...] But buried beneath the white stuff are dark secrets from Crozet's past — and Harry and her posse of pet detectives are determined to sniff them out", to quote GoodReads (see Links below). Looking at the reviews on the same site, a lot of readers seem to feel that this marks a return to the less polictical-soapbox and more mystery-plot driven form of the early instalments. The basic structure with talking and crime solving animals, including the obligatory Pembroke Tee Tucker, of course remains the same as always.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1998
Country
USA
Published by
Smithmark (likely first printing hardcover)
Written by
Millington, Jenny
Corgi breed
Unknown
Comments
Ostensibly this children's "boardbook" format picture book features a Corgi. Apparently not too many people have seen it in the "flesh" though, hence the "minor sighting" status. Please feel free to enlighten me if you own or have read this one.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1996
Country
USA
Published by
Richard C. Owen Pubs., Inc. (probable 1st printing)
Written by
Carolyn Ford
Art by
Sally Schaedler
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
Couldn't find much info on this children's picture book, aside of a quote from Barnes&Noble: "Never receiving anything for himself in the mailbox, a child decides to write letters to almost everyone he knows, with happy results". The boy seems to have a Pem (and a very nicely drawn one it is, judging by the cover) for a pet though, hence this is included as a minor sighting.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1995
Country
United Kingdom
Published by
Hodder & Stoughton General (likely first printing)
ISBN
0340654147 (likely first printing)
Written by
Matthew Sturgis
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A Queen's Corgi ostensibly recounting his life to the author
Comments
A quote from US edition back cover: "A fascinating first-hand account of the British Royal Family at work, at play, at home, at each other's throats — told with all the biting honesty for which corgis are justly famous". Apparently, a humorous/satirical look at the life behind the scenes of the Royal Family. Listed this as a minor sighting since it's not all that likely that it's very important that the story is "told" by a Corgi. Wouldn't know, obviously, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!
Category
Books
Year
2013
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
ASIN
B00G8KIAMG
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
The fifth part in Karen Harbert's dog show mystery series Murder at the Dog Show. In this installment, the amateur sleuth Jennifer McLeod (née Brooks) has headed to the Canadian rockies with her champion Cardigan Welsh Corgi Monty and her husband Kent but unsurprisingly can't get away from people with murderous intentions even there...
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
ISBN
9781946227782 (ISBN10: 1946227781)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
Book ten in the cozy mystery series A Southern Quilting Mystery. This time around, our protagonist, amateur sleuth and retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman ends up being a suspect in the latest murder to trouble the small town of Dappled Hills. Noo-noo the Pembroke is also along for the ride, verified by a reviewer at GoodReads (see "Links" below) stating she's "not a fan of the corgi". Shame on this age and on its lost principles!
Links
Editions of the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
1997
Country
Suomi Finland
Written by
Liisa Mainela
Art by
Kristian Runeberg (photos), Kauko Häkkilä (drawings)
Published by
Suomen Luonnonsuojelun Tuki Oy (first printing)
ISBN
951-9381-66-X (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dog
Onni as himself
Comments
Ostensibly a bird watcher's guide to Raisio bay area (it's not as grand as it sounds...) written by the Pembroke Onni, this book walks the fine line between fact (which is by definition excluded from this site) and fiction (which is welcomed with open arms). A heartwarming little book in any case.
Och samma på Finska..
Onni uikkupolulla on Onni-pemun 'kirjoittama' kertomus sen Raision lahden alueella emäntänsä kanssa tekemistä linturetkistä. Vaikka se sisältää myös faktoja, on aiheen käsittely kuitenkin sen verran fiktiivishenkistä, että päätin sisällyttää tämän mukavan pikku teoksen tietokantaan.
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2008 (1st issue)
Country
USA
Written and illustrated by
Christian Slade (Korgi), James Kochalka (Johnny Boo), Andy Runton (Owly) etc.
Published by
Top Shelf Productions
Corgi breed
Pembroke (sort of)
Comments
Presented as Top Shelf Productions' Free Comic Book Day comic, Owly and Friends features adventures set in Ann and Christian Slade's Korgi universe.
Although other artists' comics probably don't feature any corgis, apparently about 1/3 of the 2008 and 2009 editions (and the 2010 edition cover) do so I've tentatively given this a "major sighting" status. Still, not having actually seen any of the issues, I cannot vouch for that nor say how (or if) the Korgi stories tie into the main story of Ivy and Sprout as featured in the ongoing series of graphic novels begun with Sprouting Wings! in 2007.
Links
Owly and Friends 2008 @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Mel McCoy
Published by
Self-published
ISBN
1096695863 (ISBN13: 9781096695868)
ASIN
B07RD491PF
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Winston
Comments
Yet another cozy mystery series with a resident Corgi starts with this book. This time around, our amateur sleuth is a (soon to be former) inner city school teacher from New York, Sarah Shores, who gets embroiled in a murder mystery when visiting her "eccentric" grandfather and "sassy" cousin who run a pet boutique in Cascade Cove, Florida. The stray Pembroke Winston is elemental to the plot and ends up being adopted by Sarah, so you can expect to read more about him as the series progresses.
Links
Category
Books
Country
USA
Written by
Dav Pilkey
Art by
Dav Pilkey
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring dog
Leia
Comments
According to the author's site back in the day, "The Paperboy's dog was modeled after Dav's dog, Leia, who is best known as the star of the book, Dogzilla". This book received a Caldecott Honor Award in 1997.
Links
The Paperboy @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2016
Country
USA
Written and Published by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
ASIN
B01FEI500C (first published edition — Kindle)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
A Southern Quilting Mystery series reaches #6 with this novel, and yet another unfortunate person reaches the end of the line. The amateur sleuth and quilting enthusiast, retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman investigates the death as usual. Looking at the cover, one assumes Noo-noo the Pembroke is also involved.
The series switches from being published by Berkeley to being self-published with this volume and unfortunately, according to reviewers (see Links below), it shows as bad (or even worse) editing than in the previous books. Apart from Kindle, it can also be purchased in paperback format.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2000
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
This would be number 8 in the series of Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries books, in which Postmistress-cum-sleuth Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen's cat, the titular Mrs. Murphy, and her Pembroke sidekick Tee Tucker solve murders commited in the small town of Crozet, Virginia. From Barnes&Noble: "In the deceptively sleepy town of Crozet, Virginia, people have a way of turning up dead. So when the past comes back to haunt the alumni of Crozet High's class of 1980, it has a very lethal effect. Mrs. Murphy, along with Tee Tucker, the Welsh corgi, and a gray cat named Pewter, are working [...] to solve the case and keep their mistress safe. Their humorous and puzzled observations of human nature provide an entertaining contrast to their own instinctive knowledge and abilities. Their dogged efforts do pay off, but by the time they ferret out the truth and discover the startling identity of this weaselly killer, they are forced to employ some rather desperate measures in hopes of keeping Harry alive".
Category
Books
Year
1995
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
American Artists, Inc. / Bantam Books (first printing)
ISBN
0-553-09603-6 (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Number 4 in the series of Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries books. Postmistress-cum-sleuth Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen's cat, the titular Mrs. Murphy, and her Pembroke sidekick Tee Tucker solve the riddle of a murdered mystery biker. From author's official site: "Mrs. Murphy, the corgi Tee Tucker, and their rotund gray friend Pewter, the grocery cat, haven't been slinking purposefully through alleys and offices and attics for nothing [...] the three begin clawing apart the strands of greed, treachery, desire, and hatred tangled closer to the heart of this town than its good citizens ever dreamed".
Category
Books
Country
USA
Written and illustrated by
Christian Slade
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Penny
Comments
From Christian Slade's website (see links below): "A furry orange creature is on the prowl, stealing food from the neighborhood animals. Who or what is this salivating beast?" It is of course the titular Penny, a Welsh Corgi Pembroke with a huge apetite, who appears to be inspired by the author's own Pem with the same name. This children's picture book is self-published by the author and is available via his website.
For more Corgi-related work by Christian Slade, see the series page.
Links
Info about the book @ Google Books
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
9781798779620 (ISBN10: 1798779625)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
Number 11 in Cozy Corgi Mysteries series has the amateur sleuth Winifred "Fred" Page and her Pembroke Watson dealing with several feuds in Estes Park, Colorado — and a murder too, obviously.
Links
Editions of the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
9798631436664
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
Number 16 in the rapidly expanding Cozy Corgi Mysteries series. New Year’s Eve approaches, but of course that doesn't mean that nobody in Estes Park, Colorado is in a murderous mood. Soon the amateur sleuth (and bookstore and bakery owner) Winifred "Fred" Page and her Pembroke Watson are neck deep in trouble again.
Links
Editions of the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
1976950767 (ISBN13: 9781976950766)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
In what amounts to a Cozy Corgi Mysteries series Halloween special, a murderer (not the one you may be thinking of, because copyright etc.) is once again on the loose in Estes Park, Colorado, and obviously it's up to the amateur sleuth and bookstore & bakery owner Winnifred Page and her Pembroke Watson to stop the killing.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Published by
NAL
ISBN
1946227021 (ISBN13: 9781946227027)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
The eight book in A Southern Quilting Mystery series finds the retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman on the verge of getting hitched. However, when you are a protagonist in a cozy mystery series, even that can't happen before solving a murder. Sadly I could once again find no information about Noo-noo the Pembroke's involvement in actually solving the case.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
Bantam Books
ISBN
0425287173 (ISBN13: 9780425287170)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
New Year approaches and unsurprisingly, a new murder occurs in Crozet, Virginia in this the 27th volume of Mrs. Murphy Mysteries.
As with the recent books in the series, the murder mystery in the present alternates with a historic tale set in the post Revolution days. While the dual timelines (stretching over various entries, no less) setup may well have given the series a shot in the arm such a venerable procession might require upon occasion, it seems to have happened at the cost of somewhat sidelining the series-titular cat Mrs. Murphy and her sidekick, Pembroke Tee Tucker from actually helping with the solving of the crimes.
Tee Tucker does have a crucial role to play in this one, however, according to a spoiler-filled review on GoodReads (see Links below). Plus there is apparently even another Corgi in the book! This might be the best book in the series, corgisighting-wise, for a while...
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
ASIN
B00IWDT6A2
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
The sixth in Karen Harbert's dog show mystery series Murder at the Dog Show finds mental health administrator Jennifer Brooks (apparently back from using her maiden name instead of "McLeod" of the previous installment) struggling with artificial insemination using a price dog's frozen semen. And a murderer, of course. This last with the invaluable help from her Cardigan, Monty.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2008
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Illustrated by
Michael Gellatly
Published by
Bantam Books (first printing)
ISBN
9780553803655 (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
From the editor: "Autumn has arrived in cozy Crozet, Virginia, and that means the town's inhabitants are hard at work in home and garden preparing for winter. Harry is planning to harvest her first crop of Petit Manseng grapes along with her beloved sunflowers. Meanwhile, her recent marriage to Fair and her friendship with Deputy Cynthia Cooper, who's rented nearby Blair Farm, are flourishing. But even when peace descends on the idyllic countryside, murder is lurking." Rita Mae Brown's mystery series Mrs. Murphy Mysteries has reached the 16th volume. One has to wonder if the titular cat's pembroke sidekick Tee Tucker is not getting a bit long in the tooth...
Category
Books
Year
2007
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Illustrated by
Michael Gellatly
Published by
Bantam Books (first printing)
ISBN
9780553803648 (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
From the editor: "Instead of a proper second honeymoon, the newly remarried Harry and Fair Haristeen leave cozy Crozet, Virginia, for Shelbyville, Kentucky, site of the famous saddlebred horse show. [...] But soon after they arrive, events veer mysteriously–and murderously–off course. [...] As Harry searches for clues, rediscovers life as a married woman, and deals with her upcoming fortieth birthday, her four-legged detective friends are already on the case. But is animal instinct any match for human depravity?" One can pretty safely assume it is as Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series continues past this, its 15th book. The latter parts of the series aren't getting top reviews but apparently they still sell well enough as there's at least one out every year.
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
1718003374 (ISBN13: 9781718003378)
A SIN
B07FZVN8N4
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
The seventh book in the rapidly expanding Cozy Corgi Mysteries series deals with a murder connected to a New Age conference. It's once again up to the amateur sleuth Winifred Page and her Pembroke Watson to solve the case.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
1993
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
Sue Townsend
Published by
Penguin Books (first paperback edition)
ISBN
0241958377, 9780241958377 (first paperback edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Harris and various other Pembrokes of the Queen of Britain
Comments
From Barnes&Noble: "The creator of the celebrated Adrian Mole children series, including The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 and Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major, presents an outrageous new story in which England's Royals are given the sack and must go on the dole".
So, this is a satirical alternative history novel where a socialist Republican party takes over Britain's government and the ousts the royals — Corgis and all — from Buckingham Palace, forcing them to live in an unpleasant council estate in the Midlands. Cathy Rathbone further informs us that "Queen's corgis are important characters here" which gives this the coveted "major sighting" status. She also reminds us that this is an "adult book".
Nearly a decade and a half later, Ms. Townsend returned to the same alternate universe to give us a sequel, Queen Camilla.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
1993
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
Sue Townsend
Published by
Michael Joseph (first printing)
ISBN
0718149173, 9780718149178 (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Harris and various other Pembrokes of the Queen of Britain
Comments
This satirical alternative history novel is a sequel The Queen and I and takes place thirteen years after that — which is also roughly the time between the publication of the two novels. Britain has sunk into something of a dystopia and people have started to want the royals — and the royal Corgis of course — back in office. Unsurpisingly, the return to power doesn't go smoothly for the royal family..."We've been domesticated for too long, it's time we showed our bleeding teeth."
~ Harris the Queen's Corgi
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
1984
Country
United Kingdom
Published by
Olympic Marketing Corp (likely first printing), Scholastic, Inc. (1st American edition)
ISBN
0316493422 (likely first printing), 0531059731 (1st American edition)
Written by
Margaret Wild
Art by
Sue O'Loughlin
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
The Queen's five Corgis
Comments
From The Columbia River Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club book reviews: "A very Victoria-like Queen decides to go to the seashore. With her go her page boy, lady-in-waiting, bodyguard, groom, doctor, palace guard, maids, footman, and butler. And of course, her five Corgis. 'But it was a long, long walk to the seaside, and on the way everyone got rather hot and silly.' The cartoon drawings of the Corgis running in terror from an alley cat, fainting, and begging the butler for help are just hysterical! The Queen sternly calls everyone to order, sets things straight, rescues the Corgis, and marches everyone down to the seashore for a marvelous day". Apparently a funny book about how even Corgis need to observe protocol, suitable for all ages.
Full Title
The Queen's Corgi: On Purpose
Category
Books
Year
1984
Country
United Kingdom(?)
Published by
Conch Books
ISBN
0994488106 (ISBN13: 9780994488107)
Written by
David Mitchie
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Nelson
Comments
Another book where we get a fictional Corgi's eye view into the royal household of Britain, "The Queen's Corgi bursts with zest, humour and adventure" (quote from GoodRead, see Links below). Mr. Mitchie is probably best known as the author of various books about mindfulness, meditation and Buddhism.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2012
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Published by
NAL
ISBN
0451237331 (ISBN13: 9780451237330)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
Yet another "cozy mystery" series (this time quilting-themed) with an author who apperas to have a soft spot for Corgis.
As to the actual role the Pembroke ("Noo-noo the Corgi who sleeps on his back" according to a reviewer at Goodreads) plays in the story is a mystery to me, but at least it appears to be on the cover of each and every one of the series so far, and so I've tentatively given this a "major sighting" status.
As to the story itself , our interprid amateur sleuth this time around is a "retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman" who "knows everything there is to know about quilts, except how to make them. But with her recent move to Dapple Hills, North Carolina, she's learning all sorts of new things — including how to solve a murder..." (synopsis also taken from Goodreads)
Category
Books
Year
2013
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Published by
NAL
ISBN
0451240634 (ISBN13: 9780451240637)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
Part three in a quilting-themed cozy mystery series. This time around, our amateur sleuth and retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman takes a trip to the quintessential cozy mystery location: a remote Victorian mansion in the countryside. And of course she is soon embroiled in solving a closed circle murder case there. Solely by looking at reviews @ Goodreads it appears that, despite showing up on the cover, Noo-noo the Corgi may in fact be "off camera" in this book.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2014 (original 2006)
Country
United Kingdom (original Finland)
ISBN
1782270434 (this edition)
Published by
Pushkin Press
Written by
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
Translated by
Lola Rodgers
Corgi breed
Unknown
Starring role
A Corgi seen at the house of the famous writer Martti Talvimaa
Comments
This is the first English edition of Lumikko ja yhdensän muuta. Please refer to the aforementioned entry for more details.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1996 (September, probable first edition)
Country
USA
Published by
E P Dutton (probable first edition)
ISBN
0525941908 (probable first edition)
Written by
Richard Bachman
Corgi breed
Unknown
Starring role
Rose (off "camera")
Comments
Richard Bachman is, as we all know, really the famous horror author Stephen King. A Corgi person, Mr. King has inserted several references to one Rose ("the Corgi that could count") in this quite unbelievable but still somewhat entertaining horror story about a very sick version of child's play brough to life by a vampiric psychic evil. The Corgi is not actually present in the book, which makes this a minor sighting (if that, really).
Category
Books
Country
United Kingdom
Written and Illustrated by
Kate Simpson
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Ralph
Comments
According to the author/illustrator's site (see Links below), the protagonist of the this book "is a Corgi who is desperate to help Farmer Jack and Tess the Sheepdog at South Linden Farm, but he always gets into trouble". Ralph is (or maybe was) actually the author's — who admits to being "a bit" obsessed with Corgis — own dog, but one assumes the book is a fictionalized account of one of his (mis)adventures. It's the first book in a series that seems to only be available by direct order from the author herself.
Links
About the book @ author's home page
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2017
Country
USA
Published by
Olympia Publishing
ISBN
978-1848975378
Written by
Susan Pokorny
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Ralphie
Comments
A children's book about the titular Ralphie, a Pembroke puppy living in USA who decides to visit the Queen in United Kingdom. Humorous and touching escapades ensue.
I don't tend to criticize covers of more-or-less self published books (of which category I suspect this to be), but I must say this one's is really ugly. Hopefully the story will make up for it.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2000
Country
USA
Written by
John Lithgow
Illustrated by
C.F. Payne
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
a Pembroke featured in the pictures
Comments
A children's book about a musical child prodigy written by Mr. Lithgow, better known as TV and movie actor. According to Carol Ann Wilson in School Library Journal, "Payne's realistic mixed-media illustrations contain whimsical details" which include a Pembroke Welsh Corgi appearing from unexpected quarters. The Pem doesn't seem to make an appearance in the text though, nor is it in every pic: hence the minor sighting status of this entry.
Category
Books
Year
1992
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
American Artists, Inc. / Bantam Books (first printing)
ISBN
0-553-07728-7 (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Number 2 in the series of Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries books. Postmistress-cum-sleuth Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen's cat, the titular Mrs. Murphy, and her Pembroke sidekick Tee Tucker solve the mystery of a man found decapitated in the small town of Crozet, Virginia. Mystery writers do seem to think small towns are really colourful places, don't they? From author's official site: "Blair Bainbridge is drop-dead gorgeous, single, and living right down the road from Harry. The local matchmakers think he is the perfect antidote for the pain of Harry's recent divorce [...] Even Mrs. Murphy and Harry's Welsh corgi, Tee Tucker, believe he smells A-okay. Could his one little imperfection be that he's a killer?".
Trivia: in this book Tee Tucker is apparently mentioned to have a tail which would make her an undocked Pembroke; this has later been amended
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Published by
Self-published
ISBN
1946227269, 9781946227263
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
Volume nine in the cozy mystery series A Southern Quilting Mystery (not to be confused with a much earlier novel of the same name and in the same genre) puts the retired folk art curator and part-time sleuth Beatrice Coleman in a most unpleasant situation: two murders occur right after her daughter's wedding. One assumes Noo-noo the Pembroke is there to help her find the killer as he is on the cover of the book.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
J.A. Whiting
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
ISBN
9781545125458 (ISBN10: 1545125457)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring roles
Bear and Lady
Comments
Book two in the Claire Rollins Mysteries series. The eponymous amateur sleuth uses her borderline paranormal intuition and of course the help of her friend Nicole and her Pembrokes Bear and Lady to solve murders (even in the cozy mysteries like this one, the main crime almost invariably has to be murder) and in this specific case to unravel "a tangled mystery of infidelity and death" (according to GoodReads, see Links below for more).
Links
Category
Books
Year
1983
Country
United Kingdom
Published by
Pavillion Bks. (likely first printing)
ISBN
0907516327 (likely first printing)
Written by
Dorothea King
Art by
Nicola Smee
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Rex Q.C. ("Queen's Corgi")
Comments
From The Columbia River Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club book reviews: "A short picture book of a typical day in the palace from a dog's eye view. Rex is not at all in awe of his royal owners". One more out-of-print Corgi oriented book for industrious people to dig up.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2002
Country
USA
Written and illustrated by
Sam Logan
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Baker
Comments
Sam & Fuzzy is a long-standing web comic (at the time of writing it has run for twenty years plus) about the unusual friendship between the titular characters, a young adult (well, at least intially) named Sam and a mischievous, unruly teddy bear-like creature called Fuzzy. And many other things as well. Starting as a slice-of-life gag strip, it has evolved into an action-adventure story (albeit still a humorous one) with labyrinthine plots involving conflicts with supernatural adversaries and the "Ninja Mafia" crime syndicate.
Given all of the above, it's obviously a lot to take in but the question is of course, will it be worth it from the Corgi sighting point of view? The answer is "maybe" since Baker the Corgi, familiar to the avid readers of CSDb from Mr. Logan's 2018 book Vote Dog, keeps putting in an occasional appearance (that aren't contained in the said collected volume for obvious reasons). He's strictly a very minor character in the Sam & Fuzzy's saga however.
Links
The home page of Sam and Fuzzy
Category
Books
Year
2008
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN
0553807064 (probable first printing, hardcover)
0553591592 (mass market paperback)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
By this book, Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries have reached number #17 and have also come to the important juncture of presenting their first Holiday special.
As can be expected, despite the season to be merry, there's yet another murderer loose in Crozet, Virginia. And it's once again up to the titular cat Mrs. Murphy and her corgi "sidekick" Tee Tucker to catch the culprit. From Publisher's weekly (via Barnes & Noble): "The [...] novel finds Harry and friends Mrs. Murphy, Pewter and Tee Tucker involved in a holiday investigation in which an old friend is the prime suspect."
This book seems to be getting a little better reviews than some of the immediately preceeding ones. Also note that Barnes & Noble reports the mass market paperback edition (see ISBN above) is "revised".
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
1980355282 (ISBN13: 9781980355281)
A SIN
B079Y9H8MG (Kindle edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
The fourth book in Midlred Abbot's quickly expanding series of Cozy Corgi Mysteries. Once more, the amateur sleuth Winifred Page and her Pembroke Watson are caught up in a murder mystery as antother dead body is discovered in the series titular Cozy Corgi Bookshop and Bakery.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Full title
Corgi Coloring: Scamp's 12 Days of Christmas
Category
Books
Subcategory
Adult coloring books
Year
2021
Country
USA
Art by
Katie Fiete
ISBN
9798783751950
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Scamp
Comments
Katie Fiete's Scamp, the hero of the Corgi Coloring series of adult coloring books, is in a Christmas mood! This one apparently has some kind of story in it in addition to the standard coloring pages, and that plus the distinctive fictional elements make it worthy of inclusion in CSDb (as opposed to many other adult coloring books about corgis, of which there are probably several dozen).
Links
Full title
Corgi Coloring: Scamp's Day at the Art Museum
Category
Books
Subcategory
Adult coloring books
Year
2022
Country
USA
Art by
Katie Fiete
ISBN
9798371637796
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Scamp
Comments
Scamp goes to see pictures at an exhibition in the 7th instalment of Corgi Coloring series of adult coloring books. For some reason, all the famous art pieces shown have Corgis in them, so maybe this happens in alternate reality — or Scamp's imagination is getting the best of him. You can decide which, as well as choose the colors for each piece of course.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Full title
Corgi Coloring: Scamp's Day at the Beach
Category
Books
Subcategory
Adult coloring books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Art by
Katie Fiete
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1548928011 (ISBN13: 9781548928018)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Scamp
Comments
Katie Fiete's Corgi Coloring series of adult coloring books continues with this the fourth (published) volume. Scamp's adventures at the beach include playing beach volley with his Pembroke friends and riding a sea turtle while dressed up as a merCorgi, so once again the book definitely has fantasy elements in it. Plot, not so much, as it's a coloring book.
Links
Category
Books
Year
2002(?)
Country
USA
Written by
Kathy Mancl
Illustrated by
Dona Fischer
ISBN
0-9710988-6-7 (assumed 1st printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Scarlett
Starring dog
Scarlett
Comments
From Acorn Publishing (see links below): "A very special little dog named Scarlett leads the way as an unlikely detective, when she tries to solve mysterious cases of horse theft from area farms. Even with the short legs of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Scarlett proves herself to be a challenging match for thieves who think they can steal prize horses their owners love". In other words, another mystery story with a Pem but this time for the children. The title character Scarlett is a real Pembroke belonging to the author, although I'd suspect the story itself is not entirely based on fact (-;)
Links
About the book @ Google Books
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
1980944709 (ISBN13: 9781980944706)
A SIN
B07CPL9MH7 (Kindle edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
Amateur sleuth Winifred Page and her Pembroke Watson get their fifth outing in this cozy mystery by The exceedingly prolific Ms. Abbot. Predictably, another murder occurs in Estes Park, Colorado and only our aforementioned dynamic duo can discover the culprit.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2008
Country
United Kingdom(?)
Written by
Jan E. Iriving
Published by
CreateSpace
ISBN
1440465096, 9781440465093
Corgi breed
Cardigan and Pembroke
Starring role
Unkown
Comments
Links
Not much info about this e-book, but it appears to be a fictional history of Welsh Corgi ostensibly related to the author by "an enchantress". One assumes it's for the wee ones.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Meredith Mansfield
Published by
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1500115320 (ISBN-13: 978-1500115326)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Comments
Book one in an epic (young adult-ish) fantasy series Dual Magics. A coming of age story set in a fantasy world with a minor role for in it for some dogs that according to the author are "recognizable as Cardigan Welsh Corgis" (even though the breed is not mentioned).
Links
Information about the series @ the author's home page
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Published by
NAL
ISBN
045146950X (ISBN13: 9780451469502)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
Number #4 in the quilting-themed cozy mystery series. The protagonist, Beatrice Coleman, and her fellow members of the Village Quilters of Dappled Hills are having a quilting party when the murderer strikes — with the titular shears. Beatrice's Corgi Noo-noo (who is described as "well-behaved" by a reviewer, despite the name) is also along for the ride of course.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2016
Country
USA
Written by
Melinda Johnson
Published by
Ancient Faith Publishing
ISBN
9781944967079 (ISBN10: 1944967079)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Saucer
Comments
A religious (Orthodox Christian to be exact) middle-grade chapter book (and first in a series) about Saucer, a Corgi who lives in a monastery but would like to be a herding dog, and Sam, "a socially challenged young man" (according to the review you can find in Links below) who form a somewhat unlikely but not very unexpected friendship. The story is told from Saucer's point of view.
Links
Editions of the book listed @ GoodReads
Full title
Corgi Coloring: Short, Sweet and Scamp
Category
Books
Subcategory
Adult coloring books
Country
USA
Year
2017
Art by
Katie Fiete
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1542892716 (ISBN-13: 978-1542892711)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Scamp
Comments
The third book in Katie Fiete's Corgi Coloring series of adult coloring books is a Valentine's Day special. It's also literally short at only 24 pages, compared to the other volumes.
Scamp's adventures in general often occur in fictional places, hence the inclusion of the series in the database.
Links
Category
Books
Country
USA
Year
1985
Written by
Arthur D. Smith AKA Art Smith
Corgi breed
Unknown
Comments
From a Corgi-L posting: "The book is both written and illustrated by Art Smith (listed as Arthur D. Smith). [...] It is harder to find than hen's teeth". Additional information found at The Columbia River Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club book reviews states that "this is about young Jase and his adventures on the family farm with his new Corgi puppy. An epilogue shows the grown Jase getting a Corgi puppy for his own son".
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Richard Wolkomir
ISBN
1503247163, 9781503247161
Published by
Createspace
Corgi breed
Pembroke (a fantasy version thereof anyway)
Starring role
Tobi
Comments
The sequel to Wil Deft finds the titular character of the first instalment back in the saddle again, with Tobi "the talkative Corgi" obviously also along for the ride. From what little information I have been able to find this book appears to have more New Weird leanings as opposed to the somewhat more traditional young adult fantasy of the first one. The book is also available on Kindle.
Tobi is inspired by the author's own Corgi and his website (see Links below) hints that Corgis make frequent appearances in his other work as well: see the series page for more information.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2005(?)
Country
USA
Written amd Illustrated by
Rikk Estoban
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Baker
Comments
Skull Panda is an apparently defunct but still readily available net comic about fairly random antics of a weird creature that, according to the comic's page (see Links below) "loves everything" but more often than not manifestly does not. Or if he/it does, not in a very wholesome manner.
It's unclear to me how exactly does this comic relate to the work of Sam Logan of Sam & Fuzzy fame, but aside of Logan's claim that he "swindled the rights from Rikk in a blatantly crooked poker game in 2004", the titular character has guest starred on Sam & Fuzzy and has reciprocally been visited by Baker the Pembroke who made his first appearance there — all of two times. So this is definitely a minor sighting.
Links
Official site of Skull Panda (some "episodes" may only appear @ Sam & Fuzzy's site)
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1997
Country
USA
Published by
Fulcrum Publishing (likely first printing)
ISBN
1555913520 (likely first printing)
Written by
Margaret Read MacDonald
Art by
Yvonne L. Davis
Corgi breed
Unknown
Comments
From a Corgi-L posting: "a kids' picture book [...] about 'little people' [...] The corgi in it is a bit player, but it's fun to watch its antics from scene to scene". A retold Welsh (and globally known) folktale about "wee folk" (i.e. fairies) getting their home flooded with dinner leftovers unknowingly thrown out by humans.
Full title
Sneaky Pie for President: A Novel
Category
Books
Year
2012
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
Bantam
ISBN
0345530462 (Bantam edition, published August 7 2012)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
This book is a kind of tie-in to the long-running Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series and tells the tale of how the titular cat of the said series ran for President of the United States(!). Although the title explicitly touts it as "a Novel" (probably to differentiate it from the Mrs. Murphy Mysteries books), the reviews (see for example Links below) seem to indicate that it is leaning rather heavily in the direction of a polictical platform piece. Regardless, a story featuring a sapient, talking cat running for President, aided in part of a similarly sapient Pembroke is pretty obviously fictional and thus eligible for inclusion in CSDb.
Links
Information and reviews @ GoodReads
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2016
Country
Singapore
Written & Illustrated by
Derek Chua
Published by
Irrational Comics
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Socute (real name [spoiler redacted])
Comments
Socute is "a brave and fun-loving" (according to the Irrational Comics' page, see Links below) Pembroke. His adventures, drawn in a kawaii manga style, vary from fairly realistic to mildly fantastic and contain some important life lessons as well, including but not limited to responsible pet ownership.
Trained in Digital Animation, Derek Chua's self-confessed aspiration is to make it big by creating comics. Socute the Corgi is his so far only foray into making a family friendly one (even if some of the scenes may be too scary or violent for the very wee ones). Unfortunately, its success was poorer than he had hoped and so he decided it's a limited series of five issues/books, with no further ones expected. On the plus side, it means you can now read all of it in digital format (and discover Socute's real name in volume #5) for pocket change.
Links
- Samples and links for digital purchase @ Irrational Comics
- A very spoilery (and I do mean very) review of each issue by "Darke Raven":
Full title
Corgi Capers: The Sorceress of Stoney Brook
Category
Books
Year
2012
Country
USA
Written by
Val Muller
Published by
Dancing With Bear Publishing
ISBN
0615707793 / 978-0615707792
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Zeph and Sapphie
Comments
Books two in the Corgi Capers series of "middle-grade mystery novels" (targeting readers aged 8–12). This time around, the boy sleuth Adam Hollinger starts to suspect that nothing less than witches have moved in an old house nearby. His two Pembrokes, the scaredy Zeph and the rambunctious Sapphie, help him solve the mystery. According to the author, the Corgis are based on her two Pembrokes Yoda and Leia that have the same mentality as their fictious counterparts.
Links
Official home page of Corgi Capers
Category
Books
Year
2006
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Illustrated by
Michael Gellatly
Published by
Bantam Books (first printing)
ISBN
055380362X (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
From the editor: "Wouldn't you know it: Just when Harry Haristeen is rekindling her romance with the good veterinarian Fair, somebody has to get murdered." Actually, that's exactly what you should expect by this time as this book is number 14 in Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series. And as always when a murder rears its ugly head, the cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and of course the pembroke Tee Tucker are on it in a flash. Sour Puss seems to be getting very mixed reviews (as in 5-out-of-5 or 1-out-of-5 stars only), so it's probably not the best place to pick the series up...
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
ISBN
9781078491235 (ISBN10: 1078491232)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
Book 16 in Karen Harbert's dog show whodunit series Murder at the Dog Show. This time around the human protagonist of the series, mental health administrator and Cardigan Welsh Corgi breeder Jennifer Brooks and her trusty (and decorated) Cardigan sidekick Monty go toe to toe with a "spiritual adviser" that has foul plans for her family.
Links
Editions of the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2016
Country
USA
Written by
Richard Wolkomir
Published by
Createspace
ISBN
1539961281 (ISBN13: 9781539961284)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Henry
Comments
Richard Wolkomir, a Corgi person and the author of Wil Deft books and various other fantastic fiction works, tries his hand at writing a whodunit novel that promises to be the start of a series of its own (note however that a short story having the same main character was published two years prior). Retired Vermont prosecutor Cooper North finds the life of Henry, her Pembroke, and her own threatened by parties unknown. Possibly a little less "cozy" mystery than most mentioned in the database.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Full Title
Star Nose: A Cooper North Mystery
Category
Books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Richard Wolkomir
ASIN
B087JXKDJK
Published by
Kindle Direct Publishing
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
Second novel (and third published story) in the Cooper North Mysteries series finds the titular Cooper North, a retired Vermont prosecutor, working to protect a maltreated young boy who's mother has been murdered and who is himself being targeted by her killers. I could find no information about if the Corgi the withdrawn boy only is willing to interact with is North's Pembroke Henry, but it's obvious from the cover that it is indeed a Pembroke.
This entry lists the Kindle edition (since it was first released in that format), but the book is also available in paperback. See Links below.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1967
Country
United Kingdom
Published by
Heinemann (1st hardback edition)
Written by
Dodie Smith
Art by
Janet & Anne Grahame-Johnstone
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
Corgis aren't actually "seen" in this lighthearted doggy fantasy that is a sequel to the better known The Hundred And One Dalmatians, but they get a special mention for steadfastly upholding the Pembroke traditions in a time of weirdness. From a Corgi-L posting: "All the dogs of England converge on London and the Prime Minister's residence [...], the dynamic Dals Pongo and Missis (only Disney calls Pongo's doggy wife Perdita) leading the way. They're welcomed by a cheering crowd of dogs — all breeds seem to be represented in the throng [...] They are informed that all the dogs of England ARE there... except the Corgis, who are all sitting in front of Buckingham Palace". OK the author probably forgot that Cardigans are Corgis too, but one could easily assume they were up at the Palace supporting their royalist cousins (-;)
Full title
Dog Diaries: Susan
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Kate Klimo
Published by
Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN
9781524719654 (ISBN10: 152471965X)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Susan
Comments
Presented as the diary of Susan, the Pembroke gifted to Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) of Britain on her 18th birthday, this is a historical fiction book for middle-graders and includes an appendix on the real life of the late British monarch and the factual Susan (and, one assumes, the other Corgis).
This is the 12th volume of Ms. Klimo's series Dog Diaries, but none of the others are Corgi-centric — as of yet anyway.
Links
Editions of the book listed @ GoodReads
English title
Taffy and the Christmas Apples
Category
Books
Year
2015 (?)
Country
Germany
Written by
Billie Stahl
Illustrated by
Billie Stahl
English translation by
Anita Nordlunde
Corgi breed
Cardigan, Pembroke
Starring role
Taffy + several other Corgis
Comments
Another "Corgihouse Story for Children of All Ages", this picture book is about Taffy the Pembroke and her friend, the tree fairy Ceirt. So it looks like there is more fantasy elements in this one than in the Teddy books by the same author. As usual for Corgihouse publications, the story was originally published as an online advent calendar on now sadly defunct Corgihouse.de site in December 2014. Originally available in both German and English, the book is long out of print and probably won't be reprinted.
Original English title
Magic Lemonade
Category
Books
Year
2002 (date of the 1st Finnish printing)
ISBN
951882228X (1st Finnish printing)
Written by
Joyce Dunbar
Illustrated by
Jan McCafferty
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
Kirjan Magic Lemonade suomennos. Tämän 4-8 vuotiaille suunnatun kuvakirjan päähenkilö leikkii olevansa kuningatar, ja totta kai hänellä sattuu myös olemaan lemmikkinä pembroke! "Kuningattaren" koira kommentoi kirjan tapahtumia erittäin pemumaiseen tyyliin — jos meidän pembrokemme olisi osannut puhua, juttu olisi ollut juuri sellaista: "Tietä koiralle!". Hauska pikku tarina, joka sopii myös vanhemmille lukijoille.
Category
Books
Year
2015
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
ISBN
1410479560 (ISBN13: 9781410479563)
Published by
Thorndike Press (1st edition hardcover), Bantam (later editions)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Rita Mae Brown's extremely long running Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series continues with this the 24th installment, where the obligatory murder mystery is tied up in what happened back in the days of the American Revolution. The story thus alternates between the protagonist Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her crime-solving menagerie of Mrs. Murphy, Pewter (cats) and Tee Tucker (Pembroke Welsh Corgi) attempting to solve the present day killing and chapters with fictional historical content about British prisoners of war. The people's jury at GoodReads (see Links below) appears to be somewhat unsure if this is a succesfull choice but at least they agree it's something new. Which is I suppose not a bad thing to at least attempt.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2003
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Art by
Michael Gellatly (line art, presumably in the 1st printing)
Published by
Gale Group (assumed first printing)
ISBN
0786249919 (assumed first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
The 11th book in the series of Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries books, in which Postmistress-cum-sleuth Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen's cat, the titular Mrs. Murphy, and her Pembroke sidekick Tee Tucker solve murders commited in the small town of Crozet, Virginia. From Barnes&Noble: "Tucker the soulful-eyed corgi, Pewter the prototypical fat cat, and Mrs. Murphy, feline sleuth extraordinaire, all know exactly what will happen the moment they learn that the game has ended with philandering building contractor H.H. Donaldson dead in the arena parking lot...".
Tale of The Fluffy Corgi, The
Category
Books
Year
2013
Country
USA
Written by
Morgan Eve Humphrey
Published by
the author (presumably)
ASIN
B00HGVPFHE
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Byr
Comments
This Kindle fantasy book(let) — more properly a short story than a book — was originally authored as an entry for Dog Writers Association of America (DWAA) writing competition of 2014. It won in both the short fiction category and the junior writers special award category that year, as well as the junior division prize of The Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club of the Potomac Myths and legends Writing Contest.
If you don't want or can't have the Kindle version (the proceeds from which go to the author's college fund), the story is also available online at Welsh Corgi News.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2016
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
ISBN
0553392468 (ISBN13: 9780553392463)
Published by
Bantam
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Rita Mae Brown's cozy mystery series Mrs. Murphy Mysteries has reached #25. This is the second part of a series within the series where the obligatory murder mystery is tied up in what happened in the late 1700's. The story alternates between the protagonist Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her sleuthing animal companions Mrs. Murphy, Pewter (cats) and Tee Tucker (Pembroke Welsh Corgi) attempting to solve a present day killing and chapters with fictional historical content about life after the U.S. Revolutionary War. The reader opinions are almost equally divided as the plot lines in if this new phase in the series is a good or a bad thing, but all the same it has obviously resulted in less Corgi content per book — so be warned.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
English title
Teddies Christmas
Category
Books
Year
2011 (first printing)
Country
Germany
Written by
Billie Stahl
Illustrated by
Billie Stahl
English translation by
Anita Nordlunde
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Teddy + others Cardigans
Comments
"A Corgihouse Advent Story for Children of All Ages" is a picture book story of Teddy who thinks Christmas without Christmas cookies can never be a proper Christmas. The story was originally published as an online advent calendar on now sadly defunct Corgihouse.de site in December 2010. Originally available in softcover and hardcover, the book is out of print and probably won't be reprinted.
Links
Teddy books @The series page
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1996
Country
USA
Published by
Simon & Schuster Children's (likely first printing)
ISBN
0689811624 (likely first printing)
Written by
Tasha Tudor
Art by
Tasha Tudor
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
If Barnes&Noble is to be believed, the alternate title says it all really: "This charming picture book presents a year of holiday traditions from Tasha Tudor's own childhood [...] Delicate watercolor paintings, intricate border illustrations, and a loving text celebrate the turning of the seasons and the year's special days". This has been given "minor sighting" status since the Corgis are likely to be "bystanders" in this one, although there's even one pictured on the cover. Several of Mrs. Tudor's other books also include pictures of Pembrokes, see the Corgiville series for more details.
Links
Official site
Category
Books
Year
2002
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
Dick King-Smith
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Titus, one of the Queen's Pembrokes
Comments
This is an earlier, less flashy, UK printing (Doubleday, ISBN: 0385604424) of Titus Rules! and is included here because a title change (even if a minute one) has happened along the way.
Category
Books
Year
2003
Country
United Kingdom (this iformation refers to the US edition)
Written by
Dick King-Smith
Art by
John Eastwood (USA, Random House/Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0375814612)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Titus, one of the Queen's Pembrokes
Comments
From Kirkus Review: "Poking affectionate fun at Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, the author looks at their relationship through the eyes of Titus, one of the Queen's ten corgis. Never referring to his royal mistress as anything other than 'the servant', Titus learns proper behavior from his mum ('Our servant she may be, but it's important to treat servants right if you want them to look after you well'), earns a place on the Queen's lap after nabbing a jewel thief, then on her very bed after heading off a flood (Philip falls asleep in his tub, leaving the taps on), and a cigarette-caused fire". Sounds like fun to me, although Kirkus Review goes to add that they didn't find the Queen jokes very entertaining. Perhaps you should check out for yourselves. This book has been previously published in UK under the slightly different title of Titus Rules OK!.
Read an independend review of this title by Florence Scarinci
Category
Books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Jennifer Hawkins
Published by
Berkeley Books
ISBN
0593197089 (ISBN13: 9780593197080)
ASIN
B085BVSX12
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Oliver
Comments
Jennifer Hawkins' cozy mystery series is somewhat set apart from the genre's typical US of A -centric fare by being set in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It also has an interesting twist on the participation of the Pembroke protagonist Oliver in solving of the inevitable murders: he and his mistress, Emma Reed (a tea shop owner who used to work in finance sector in London City) can actually talk to each other. This magical ability is apparently hereditary in Emma's family and no other known person can understand the "chatty Corgi" that gives the series its name. The point of view in the book reportedly alternates between Emma and Oliver so this one definitely goes in the "major sighting" category.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
1973571080, 9781973571087 (first printing paperback)
A SIN
B078GCQC46 (Kindle edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
The second book in the cozy mystery series Cozy Corgi Mysteries. Christmas has come to Estes Park, Colorado, but not everybody is in the goodwill-among-men mood: a murderer strikes and the amateur sleuth Winifred Page and of course her Pembroke Welsh Corgi Watson are needed to solve the case.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Full title
Corgi Coloring: Trick-or-Treating with Scamp
Category
Books
Subcategory
Adult coloring books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Art by
Katie Fiete
ISBN
9798693373556
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Scamp
Comments
The fifth in Katie Fiete's Corgi Coloring series of adult coloring books is a Halloween special. It has 27 spooky pages depicting Scamp in festive (and often fictional) activities of the season.
Links
- About the book @ GoodReads
- Katie Fiete's author page @ Amazon.com (which for some reason doesn't list this book although it is available for purchase)
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2011
Country
USA
Written by
Melissa Sweet
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Frito and Po
Comments
From the official press release (see Links below): "Tupelo is searching for a home. Abandoned and alone, but determined to find her place in the world, Tupelo sets off on a daring adventure, with her sock toy, Mr. Bones, for company." Along her trip, she meets with the aforementioned Corgis. They are just minor characters unfortunately according to Cathy Rathbone, who also informs us that they are "adorable red/white pems". The art looks nice enough though and the story doesn't sound too "sweet" despite the name of the author so it appears to be worth taking a look at least.
Links
Publication press release from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, including a short interview with the author
Category
Books
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
Essex Hope
Corgi breed
Mix
Starring role
Garry, a Corgi/Irish Terrier(?) mix
Comments
The original UK edition of Garry — The Story Of A Dog.
Category
Books
Year
2015
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Published by
Berkley Books
ISBN
0451469518 (ISBN13: 9780451469519)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
Number five in A Southern Quilting Mystery series. This time around the retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman — who is also a quilting enthusiast and obviously an amateur sleuth as well — investigates the murder linked with the wedding of the sister of her beau Wyatt. One assumes Noo-noo the Pembroke is there to help her out, although reviews (see Links below) only mention it in passing.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1969 (1st edition?)
Country
Finland
Published by
Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava
Written by
Dodie Smith
Art by
Janet & Anne Grahame-Johnstone
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
The Finnish edition of Dodie Smith's The Starlight Barking.
Och samma på Finska:
Dodie Smithin The Starlight Barking -kirjan suomennos. Kuten oletettavasti alkuteoksessakin, kirjan kansikuvan vasemmassa yläkulmassa näkyy sliitävä (ks. kirja) pembroke. Muutoin corgeja ei kirjassa varsinaisesti esiinny, mutta ne saavat tärkeän erikoismaininnan juuri sen vuoksi. Kohtauksessa, jossa koirat kokoontuvat Downing Street 10:een todetaan seuraavaa:
"Näyttää upealta", tuumasi Pongo. "Tuntuu siltä, että tuolla on ihan jokaisen rodun edustajia."
"Paitsi corgeja", sanoi Possuli. "Ne ovat kaikki vartioimassa kuningattaren linnaa."
Kirjailija lienee unohtanut, että myös cardiganeja on olemassa, mutta toisaalta voidaan kai ajatella, että ne olivat "rojalistiserkkujensa" tukena linnalla (-;)
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2009
Country
USA
Written by
Stephen King
ISBN
978-1439148501 (1st printing hardcover)
Corgi breed
Pembroke (not explicitly mentioned in the text, but seen on the cover of the 1st printing)
Starring role
Horace
Comments
According to Wikipedia, the premise of this massive Stephen King tome (the manuscript was reportedly over 1,500 pages long and the 1st printing hardcover came to 1094 pages) is that "shortly before noon on October 21 of an unspecified year after 2012 (evidenced by mention of a faded bumper sticker for Barack Obama's successful 2012 re-election campaign), the small Maine town of Chester's Mill is abruptly separated from the outside world by an invisible, semipermeable barrier of unknown origin". Captured within are a considerable number of people and also at least one Corgi, Horace, belonging to the town's newspaper editor. According to Lisa Pisciotta, Horace is something of a bit player tho he does manage to do something special that I myself won't reveal in case somebody reading this hasn't read the book yet and is allergic to spoilers (for those rearing to know, see the Wikipedia article linked above).
There is also a TV series based on this book (that doesn't follow the plot for more than a couple of episodes) but sadly that doesn't seem to feature Horace.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2016
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
A SIN
B01LRC4WJ4
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
Karen Harbert's dog show whodunit series Murder at the Dog Show continues with this the 12th book. This time Jennifer, Sabrina and of course Monty the Cardigan are up against some very unscrupulous people attempting to take over the Board of the Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1977
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
James Herriot
Corgi breed
Unknown
Starring role
Skipper
Comments
The short story Jingo & Skipper is incorporated in this book as Chapter 4. See the relevant entry for more details. Note that although in the short story itself, Skipper the corgi is in fact more of a central character than Jingo the bull terrier, the other 23 chapters have no corgis in them. Hence, in the context this is a minor sighting.
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Meredith Mansfield
Published by
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1503355314, 978-1503355316
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Comments
A young hero continues to search for his place in a fantasy world in book two of Dual Magics series. According to the author, some dogs that are "recognizable as Cardigan Welsh Corgis" (even though the breed is not mentioned) play a minor role in the story.
Links
Information about the series @ the author's home page
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written and illustrated by
Sam Logan
Published by
Make That Thing
ISBN
978-1-939768-06-3
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Baker
Comments
Sam Logan may not be household name but chances are you've seen some of his comic art someplace, even if it's only "Know Your Corgi Shapes" (or one of its rip-offs). Which is included in this book that sweeps together a lot (albeit probably, despite what some sales pitches say, not quite all) of Mr. Logan's pet-related comics in a single, handy volume. As it's a collection picked from over 16 years worth of work, it has no overall plot even though there is a story arc of sorts about President Dog (who, as the name implies, is the POTUS) sandwiched between other story snippets and editorial-cartoon-style one-pagers.
Almost all of the Corgi related stuff in the book is concerned with various hilarious and wacky (mis)adventures of Baker, a feisty Pembroke drawn in a chibi style and apparently at least somewhat based on the author's own Corgi Dipper. Baker first appeared as a minor side character in Mr. Logan's long running web comic (parts of which are also available in printed collection volumes) Sam and Fuzzy but in this book he has almost as much page space as the top billed President (in turn apparently modeled after the author's other dog Macbeth), so this collection definitely counts as a "major sighting" as well as something I heartily recommend you to seek out: it's a really funny little book — and reading it saves you the trouble of wading through some 20 years (and counting) of material, even if entertaining, to spot Baker!
Links
- About the book @ Goodreads
- An arcticle about the author appearing with a Baker-themed booth at San Diego Comic Con 2018 @ Syfy
- The home page of Sam and Fuzzy
Voyage of the Dogs
Also Known as
Starward Bound
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Greg Van Eekhout
Published by
HarperCollins
ISBN
9780062686008 (ISBN10: 0062686003)
Corgi breed
Unknown
Starring role
Bug
Comments
SOS. Ship damaged. Human crew missing.
We are the dogs. We are alone.
This middle grade level science fiction adventure presents us with Barkonauts, specially trained (and mentally enhanced) dogs that assist human astronauts on space missions. As per the quote above, the particular one in the book goes badly awry and the Barkonauts are left to complete it on their own. Luckily, the small pack includes "Bug, the Corgi genius who helps in Engineering".
(Both quotes above from GoodReads, see "Links" below)
Links
Editions of the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2015
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
A SIN
B00W2EBWEA
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
The ninth book in Karen Harbert's dog show whodunit series Murder at the Dog Show.
This time, there is an actual serial killer stalking young women in the dog show circuit. When an attempt is made to flush out the murderer, Jennifer Brooks and her Cardigan Monty are of course in the thick it.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2016
Country
USA
Written by
Meredith Mansfield
Published by
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1537401955 (ISBN13: 978-1537401959)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Comments
This is the conclusion of Dual Magics quartet, and in the grand tradition of fantasy novel series the protagonist, Vatar, must finally accept his destiny as a leader — and risk all to defeat his enemies once and for all. The corgi sighting content is expected to be quite low in this book, although the author has verified that dogs "recognizable as Cardigan Welsh Corgis" play a minor part in the overall story.
Links
Information about the series @ the author's home page
Category
Books
Year
2012 (first printing)
Country
USA
Written by
Millie J. Williams
Illustrated by
Lyn Hamer Cook, Sari Davies, Karen Howell, Kim Hundley, Susan Jacob, Chris Landers, Ginnie Mickelson, Diane Puntenney, Cindy Read, John Scarinci and Barbie Sonnett
Corgi breed
All sorts
Starring role
You + many others
Comments
This is the fourth instalment of Millie Willams' annual Christamas story The Watching for all ages to be published in book form. As previously, the proceeds for books sold are donated to CorgiAid, Inc (click on the link below for a preview and to order).
All books have many Corgi characters in them, but this year's principal new one is an abused bitch going provisionally by the name You:
"The three corgi sisters didn't have real names when they lived caged in the bad place, they were just called You and That One and Here. But You had a dream about a special, magical place where there was plenty to eat and toys to play with, a place where a dog could be happy and free."
(quote from the CorgiAId site)
Although the book (as well as the others in the series) touches on heavy subject matter, it's fairly safe to assume there is going to be a happy (and sentimental) ending to the story.
Links
The Watching 2012 page on CorgiAid
Other books in the series
Category
Books
Year
2009 (first printing)
Country
USA
Written by
Millie J. Williams
Illustrated by
Evie Anderson, Kay Folk, Robert Holst, Kim Hundley, Chris Landers, Ginnie Mickelson, Diane Puntenney, Cindy Read, Cathy Santarsiero, John Scarinici, Christian Slade and Barbie Sonnett
Corgi breed
All sorts
Starring role
Lola + many others
Comments
Millie Williams' annual Christmas tale The Watching has been appearing on various mailing lists since 2002 and has been published in blog form since 2008.
In 2009, it first turned into an actual book (or maybe "booklet" is the right word), with a cover art by Christian Slade of Korgi fame. The proceeds for The Watching books are donated to CorgiAid, Inc. You can also purchase the book (unless it's gone out-of-print, obviously) through their site (click on the link below).
The book recounts a sentimental little tale about dogs and other animals, mostly Corgis of both breeds, preparing for the Christmas night and the festive procession to meet the dear departed and to pay homage to baby Jesus. If you are not very allergic to mixing children's fantasy with Christian fable, it is a nice enough read and has many cute and heartwarming illustrations of somewhat mixed but generally quite good quality.
Links
The Watching 2009 page on CorgiAid
Other books in the series
Category
Books
Year
2010 (first printing)
Country
USA
Written by
Millie J. Williams
Illustrated by
Lyn Hamer Cook, Sari Davies, Sue Duffield, Kay Folk, Karen Howell, Kim Hundley, Susan Jacob, Chris Landers, Ginnie Mickelson, Linda Ozelis, Diane Puntenney, Cindy Read, Cathy Santarsiero, John Scarinci, Barbie Sonnett and Millie J. Williams
Corgi breed
All sorts
Starring role
Twice & many others
Comments
Millie Williams' annual Christmas tale The Watching has been appearing on various mailing lists since 2002, has been published in blog form since 2008 and as a slim book since 2009. The proceeds for The Watching books are donated to CorgiAid, Inc. You can also purchase the book (unless it's gone out-of-print, obviously) through their site (click on the link below), which lets on the following of the 2010 edition story: "Everyone has a gift, they told the little corgi puppy called Twice, but hers certainly wasn't singing. Thrown out of chorus practice, Twice found solace with her friend Grandfather Oak and a flock of mismatched birds that he had helped her rescue."
Links
The Watching 2010 page on CorgiAid
Other books in the series
Category
Books
Year
2011 (first printing)
Country
USA
Written by
Millie J. Williams
Illustrated by
Lyn Hamer Cook, Sari Davies, Robin Faszold, Kay Folk, Karen Howell, Kim Hundley, Chris Landers, Ginnie Mickelson, Linda Ozelis, Diane Puntenney, Cindy Read, Cathy Santarsiero, John Scarinci and Barbie Sonnett
Corgi breed
All sorts
Starring role
Julius, Theodore + numerous others
Comments
Millie Williams' annual Christmas tale The Watching has been appearing on various mailing lists since 2002, has been published in blog form since 2008 and as a slim book since 2009. The proceeds for The Watching books are donated to CorgiAid, Inc. You can also purchase the book (unless it's gone out-of-print, obviously) through their site (click on the link below), which gives the following hints on the story for 2011: “Theodore, a little Pembroke Welsh Corgi puppy, and his best friend Julius, a blue merle Cardigan Welsh Corgi puppy, were ‘Onlies,' young corgis with no siblings who had been sent to the Castle to learn how to get along with other animals—not always easy, especially for Theodore."
Links
The Watching 2011 page on CorgiAid
Other books in the series
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
Suzanne Selfors
Art by
Barbara Fisinger
Published by
Katherine Tegen Books (first edition hardcover)
ISBN
0062447637 (ISBN13: 9780062447630)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Wedgie
Comments
Part one in a series of children's books about the titular pair of Wedgie, a Pembroke who might be a superhero and Gizmo, a guinea pig who might be an evil genius bend on world domination. Or maybe they just have delusions about their role in life, even though Wedgie gets to wear a cape and Gizmo has glasses and apparently can read. Anyway, reviews are pretty unanimous on it being quite funny, albeit not quite without a serious note as "the difficulty of adjusting to the blended family life is subtly explored" as one reviewer says (see Links below).
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Suzanne Selfors
Art by
Barbara Fisinger
Published by
Katherine Tegen Books (first edition hardcover)
ISBN
0062447750 (ISBN13: 9780062447753)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Wedgie
Comments
The third and thus far the last book in a children's series about Wedgie, a Pembroke (who might be a superhero) and Gizmo, a guinea pig (who might be an evil genius bend on world domination). When their family takes them along for a camping trip, they both see an opportunity to have fun or to advance their nefarious schemes, as the case may be.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Suzanne Selfors
Art by
Barbara Fisinger
Published by
Katherine Tegen Books (first edition hardcover)
ISBN
0062447653 (ISBN13: 9780062447654)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Wedgie
Comments
Second book in a series of children's books about the titular pair of Wedgie, a Pembroke who might be a superhero or just bonkers, and Gizmo, a guinea pig who might be an evil genius bend on world domination or just delusional. This time around, there is a new beast on the block: Pinky, a micro-pig that Gizmo calls the Toof, convinced that she is the Corgi's new sidekick. As the guinea pig draws his super evil plans against them, the reader is also presented a more serious side story dealing with issues of newly blended families mixed in with the silliness.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
English title
Christmas for Little Bear
Category
Books
Year
2012 (first printing)
Country
Germany
Written by
Billie Stahl
Illustrated by
Billie Stahl
English translation by
Anita Nordlunde
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Teddy and Bärli
Comments
A sequel to Teddies Weihnachten is another "Corgihouse Advent Story for Children of All Ages". The protagonist of the first instalment, Teddy, and the new puppy in the house (the titular Bärli) are facing a Christmas without cookies, a Christmas tree or, indeed, their Daddy-human. Things look bleak but maybe there's a Christmas miracle in there somewhere? Unfortunately, those wishing to find out will need to look far and wide for an answer since all Corgihouse.de books are long out of print and are unlikely to be reprinted.
Links
Teddy books @the series page
Category
Books
Year
2004 (March, first printing)
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
Bantam Books, Incorporated (first printing)
ISBN
0553801619 (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
The 12th book of Rita Mae Brown's long running Mrs. Murphy Mysteries. Once again, two cats and the pembroke Tee Tucker are on the trail of a murderer alongside their owner, the "unfailingly curious" local postmistress and amateur sleuth Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. In addition to the killer targeting horse breeders, there's also the threat of rabies in the air this time around, but of course the crafty animal protagonists once again save the day in the end.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
Bantam Books
ISBN
0425287181, 9780425287187
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Aftermath of a storm and — not surprisingly — a couple of murders keep the human and animal protagonists, including the indomitable corgi Tee Tucker, of the story occupied in this book 28 of Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series. Although the murders in the present day tie into another murder committed in the eighteenth century, there should be only one plot time, unlike in some recent Mrs. Murphy novels.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Richard Wolkomir
ISBN
1502416166, 9781502416162 (Createspace edition)
Published by
Createspace
Corgi breed
Pembroke (a fantasy version thereof anyway)
Starring role
Tobi
Comments
A (young adult) fantasy novel about a reluctant thief (the titular Wil Deft), with talking animal characters that include Tobi the Pembroke. Tobi — described as "a feckless dog" in the book's blurb — is inspired by the author's own Corgi. There is Kindle edition available and also a sequel (Sinnabar) that features Tobi as well. Furthermore, the author's website (see Links below) hints that Corgis make frequent appearances in his other works: see the series page for more information.
Links
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
1728671647 (ISBN13: 9781728671642)
A SIN
B07GV4LX6L
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
Book eight of Cozy Corgi Mysteries series finds the amateur sleuth Winifred Page and her Pembroke Watson working to solve a murder at Halloween time — and facing big, life-changing revelations, according to the book's blurb (see Links below for more details).
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
1990
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
American Artists, Inc. / Bantam Books (first printing)
ISBN
0-553-05881-9 (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
First in the series of Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries books. The series tell the tale of a cat, the titular Mrs. Murphy, and her Pembroke sidekick Tee Tucker, who solve a series of murder mysteries in and about the small town of Crozet, Virginia. They tend to be a step ahead of their owner, Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen, to whom humans mistakenly give the credit for solving the mysteries... From author's official site: "Mary Minor 'Harry' Haristeen, thirty-something and in mid-divorce, is the youngest postmistress in the history of Crozet — but then, nobody else was clamoring for the job. Nobody cares if she brings her tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, and Welsh corgi, Tee Tucker, to work with her [..] When Kelly Craycroft, Crozet's richest contractor, receives a card with a stone angel from a tombstone on the front and the inscription, 'Wish you were here' on the back, Harry thinks little of it. Until Kelley's body is found in his cement mixer".
Trivia: in this book Tee Tucker is apparently mentioned to have a tail which would make her an undocked Pem (or perhaps even a Cardi).
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
Susan Alison
Art by
Susan Alison
Published by
Amazon
ASIN
B00OCWZKX4
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
CorgiScribe
Comments
Ostensibly a guide to writing by a Pembroke Welsh Corgi who (according to GoodReads) can cope with a difference of opinion on the art "as long as you throw frisbees or bones at him, and not - you know - rocks or centipedes..."
Apparently a slightly more adult fare than the author's other (known) Corgi related book told in rhyme and illustrated by the author. Available in Kindle format only.
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Country
USA
Written by
Barb Jacobs
Art by
Barb Jacobs
Corgi breed
Pembroke (sorta)
Starring role
Livy
Comments
Faeries and wild romance were the order of the day for this beautifully illustrated but now unfortunaly long defunct fantasy web comic. Still, the highlight of the story was of course Livy who looks like an ordinary Pembroke Welsh Corgi but in fact has magical superpowers. According to the offical site back in the days of yore, Livy "can expand or contract her size to that of a bear or a hamster. She is also able to converse telepathically. Tough and taciturn, Livy is all business". The plot sadly never progressed very far before the comic was apparenly permanently aborted: at this time of writing, there is no news of the hinted-at rewrite or any other form of continuation.
Links
- Last known update of the comic @Wayback Machine (click "Back" for the final sighting of Livy)
- Jacobs explains why she stopped working on Xylia in a blog entry conserved @Wayback Machine
Full title
Aisling Grey, Book 1: You Slay Me
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2004
Country
USA
Published by
Onyx (first printing)
ISBN
9780451411525 (first printing)
Written by
Katie MacAlister
Corgi breed
Unknown
Starring role
A Parisian Corgi (belonging to a witch) that Jim, a demon bound in the form of a Newfoundland dog, falls in love with
Comments
From the official site (see Links below):
"The first book in a sexy, humorous paranormal thriller series featuring Aisling Grey, an apprentice Guardian, and her sometimes boyfriend, sometimes foe Drake Vireo, wyvern (leader) of one of the four dragon septs. [...] Implicated in the circumstances of two murders, Aisling, the demon she summons for help (and subsequently can't get rid of) named Jim, and Drake find themselves caught up in a web of lies and confusion that could well result in the demon lords of hell ruling the mortal world".
The first decade of the 21st century saw a proliferation of "paranormal romance", essentially a subgenre of "urban fantasy" for female demographic. Having no special interest in either genre, I can't tell you much anything about the quality of this effort from the fairly prolific Ms. MacAlister, but it seems to have gotten reasonably good reviews and at least it has dragons instead of more common werewolves or (yawn!) vampires as antagonists.
As per above, there is a series of books about Aisling Grey out now but to my best knowledge, none of them feature Corgis and even in this one, I assume the role of the love interest of the demon dog Jim to be a miniscule one.
Links
The You Slay Me page on the official site of Katie MacAlister
Category
Books
Year
1984
Country
United Kingdom
Published by
Piccadilly Press (likely first printing)
ISBN
0946826080 (likely first printing)
Written by
Diana Avebury
Art by
Hugh Casson
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
A Corgi pup accidentally taken to the Queen's palace
Comments
Apparently this is the one book with Corgis in a series about Zelda, a Papillon, and her canine friends having adventures in London. From The Columbia River Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club book reviews: "Zelda and her friends assume a lost Corgi puppy must belong to the Queen and return him to the palace, then have to retrieve him when they discover his real owner".
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