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The Place of Dead Trees
Corgis in printed word and pictures. Includes e-books and 'net comix as well — many of them do get published in mags or as actual printed books at some point!
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Category
Books
Year
1985
Country
USA
Written by
Anne Tyler
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Edward
Comments
The Accidental Tourist is possibly the most lauded novel ever containing a significant Corgi sighting, being the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1985.
As to the Corgi content,Carolyn Cannon says that "'The Accidental Tourist' should perhaps be required reading for any potential new corgi owner. Edward [is] a head-strong, nippy little dog with an attitude. We've known one or two of those in our lifetimes ;-) Edward is a Corgi in the book but which breed is not specified. My guess is that he's a Pembroke." However, Helen Turin thinks that "the dog in the book was actually a Cardigan" and adds: "I dimly remember reading at the time that Ann Tyler actually owned a Cardigan but I do not know from whence." I've decided to accept the latter theory.
For a more professional opinion on the book, we find that Larry McMurtry (of The New York Times Book Review says the following: "[This] is one of Anne Tyler's best books [but some] aspects of the novel do not entirely satisfy. One is the unaccountable neglect of Edward, the Corgi, in the last third of the book". Which is indeed most unsatisfying, even if according to Mr. McMurty "at the level of metaphor, however, [the author] has never been stronger".
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
1991
Written by
Dick King-Smith
Illustrated by
Lynette Hemmant (USA, Random House 1992, ISBN 0679819312)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Megan
Comments
From From Amazon.com: "The porcine hero of Babe, the Gallant Pig might be disappointed that his great-grandson isn't interested in sheepherding, but Ace has his own gifts: he can understand Farmer Tubbs's every word. The author exploits his joyful sense of the absurd to the hilt, combining a gentle ribbing of country folk and their animal counterparts with genuine affection". The book features a "snobby corgi character", according to a Corgi-L posting, and additional information spotted at GoodReads (see Links below) adds that the Corgi (apparently called Megan) "thinks of herself as royalty because the Queen owns corgis." Which was a good reason in 1991 of course, even if not any more at this time of writing in 2019.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Full title
Corgi Coloring: Adventures with Scamp
Category
Books
Subcategory
Adult coloring books
Country
USA
Art by
Katie Fiete
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1539713814 (ISBN13: 9781539713814)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Scamp
Comments
This is the first book in Katie Fiete's Corgi Coloring series of adult coloring books, in which Scamp the Pembroke goes on, well, adventures in various places. Contains 23 different scenes to work on.
Scamp books are included in CSDb because his adventures tend to take him to decidedly fictional places, such as to visit the fairies.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1984 (first printing), reprinted 2000 and 2012
Edited by
Tasha Tudor
Illustrated by
Tasha Tudor
Published by
Philomel (first printing), Simon & Schuster (reprints)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
A poetry book with poems selected, edited and illustrated by Tasha Tudor. The book also contains a section on traditions of Mrs. Tudor and her family. Simon & Schuster has reprinted this in 2000 and 2012. The versions probably have essentially the same content but the reprints have a Corgi on the cover for an added bonus. Annette Sheppard informs us that some of the interior illustrations also feature Pembrokes, as do several of Mrs. Tudor's other books: see the Corgiville series for more details.
Links
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Melinda Johnson
Published by
Ancient Faith Publishing
ISBN
9781944967437 (ISBN10: 1944967435)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Saucer
Comments
In this the second book in an Orthodox Christian middle-grade chapter book series Sam and Saucer, Christmas is drawing near, but not everyone is in the properly festive mood... Except Sam, who is very keen on knowing if animals can indeed speak on Christmas night — especially Saucer, who seems to have been stepped back from his focus character role as compared to the first book of the series (and should have something to say about that!)
Links
Editions of the book listed @GoodReads
Category
Books
Country
USA
Published by
Kids Know Products, Parks & History Association (first printing)
SKU
6000038933 (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Beanie
Comments
Once upon a time Parkexplorer.org site said that "Beanie the Corgi is an adventurous little dog touring the sites of Washington, DC. Follow him through the monuments, memorials and museums in these fun-to-color pages complete with interesting descriptions of the sites he visits. For ages 5 and up". Features a Pembroke who bills himself as "the coolest tour dog in Washington, DC" (according to a Corgi-L posting). The aforementioned information has since vanished and one can assume that this booklet is on the rare side.
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Mel McCoy
Published by
Self-published
ISBN
1074031172 (ISBN13: 9781074031176)
ASIN
B07T3T562Y
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Winston
Comments
The second book in Whodunit Pet Mystery series. The human protagonist Sarah Shores is (of course) once more on a trail of a murderer who this time around might or might not be her long-term acquaintance. Winston, the Pembroke she adopted in the first book of the series, is (also of course) there to help her out.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2015
Country
USA
Written by
Meredith Mansfield
Published by
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1516901444 (ISBN13: 9781516901449)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Comments
Part the third of Dual Magics, and the stakes for Vatar, the series protagonist, are accordingly getting higher. The author has verified that some dogs that are "recognizable as Cardigan Welsh Corgis" (even though the breed is not mentioned) play a minor part in the overall story, although in the latter half of the series their role shrinks further.
Links
Information about the series @ the author's home page
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
1976950767 (ISBN13: 9781976950766)
A SIN
B0798LMPHP (Kindle edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
For the third time, the very prolific cozy mystery author Ms. Abbot takes us to Estes Park, Colorado: the titular bookstore of the series Cozy Corgi Mysteries is finally open for business, and the owner and amateur sleuth Winifred Page and her Pembroke Watson find themselves embroiled in yet another murder case (and, in the case of the former, the possibility of romance on the side).
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Full title
The Big Cat Nap: The 20th Anniversary Mrs. Murphy Mystery
Category
Books
Year
2012
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
Bantam
ISBN
0345530446 (Bantam edition, published April 3 2012; first edition published January 1 2012)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
So we've come to the 20th installment of the Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series! In this book, the sleuthing cat Mrs. Murphy and her "fiercely loyal" Pemrboke Corgi sidekick Tee Tucker tackle the mystery of murdered car mechanics.
This book seems to be getting a bit more positive reviews than the few previous ones in the series so it looks to be a fitting landmark. It also appears that the author has saved some of her political zeal (that, according to some, has marred her mystery novel writing for a while) for Sneaky Pie for President published later the same year. Having not read this or indeed any of Ms. Brown's books, I can only encourage anyone interested to make up their own mind.
Links
Information and reviews @ GoodReads
Full title
The Blue Chair: Murder In The Green Mountains
Category
Minor Sighting
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Richard Wolkomir
Published by
Kindle Direct
ASIN
B00Q4YRFVS
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Henry
Comments
This short story (clocking at 32 pages in the Kindle publication) is a kind of prelude to Richard Wolkomir's Cooper North Mysteries series about a retired Vermont prosecutor who has to turn amateur detective to solve murders (of an Italian student in the case of this particular story). Presumably her Pembroke Henry (present in the novels) also puts in an apperance, but as this is at this time of writing unconfirmed I've given this a "minor sighting" status only.
Links
Editions of the story @Goodreads
English title
I Love my Younger Sister
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2003-2005
Country
Japan
Written by
AOKI Kotomi
Art by
AOKI Kotomi
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Yori
Comments
While there are probably a nearly endless number of hentai (erotic/smut) mangas portraying incest, this one attempts a serious dramatic treatment of the taboo subject. Even given that and assuming you are a manga fan, it's probably still not for those easily offended.
The Corgi content ratio in the series is however high starting from Volume 3, Episode 15 (at least some translations call the episodes "Secrets") in which Iku receives a Pembroke puppy from her twin brother/lover Yori (and names it after him). Apparently, apart from its kawaii/chibi drawing style, the puppy is fairly realistically portayed.
Otherwise, I have not much interest in either the subject matter or the media so I must say I only perused the available pages cursorily and can't really vouch for the quality of the plot or the art, but since there is also an anime OVA from 2005 and a live action movie from 2007 (most likely without a Corgi in it) based on this, it appears to have been a somewhat popular concept.
Links
About the manga @ Wikipedia
Category
Books
Year
2013
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
A SIN
B00CPFM4PM
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
The fourth installment in Karen Harbert's dog show whodunit series Murder at the Dog Show.
In this book, the human protagonist of the series, mental health administrator and Cardigan Welsh Corgi breeder Jennifer Brooks and her young friend Sabrina get mixed up in a number of nasty crimes (from child molestation to murder), and soon Monty is called upon to save the day once again.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2002
Written by
Celia Townsend Wells
Published by
Purdue University Press (1st UK hardcover edition)
ISBN
1557532362 (first UK hardcover edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Various Pembrokes reared by the narrator
Comments
From Amazon UK: "Brood Bitch is a mother's reflection inspired by her hand-raising a litter of Pembroke Welsh corgis whose own mother died after a Caesarian delivery". This book is apparently not so much into entertainment but instead into heavy philosophical stuff, dealing with "the vast scope of motherhood in both corgis and women — its variations, illusions, ideals, realities, frustrations, rewards". Corgis should be fairly central to the plot (insofar as there is a plot) and it's apparently only "inspired by" real life, not autobiographical. On those counts, it's included here as a "full sighting".
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
A SIN
B00MS89KWG
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
In this the seventh book of Karen Harbert's mystery series Murder at the Dog Show, mental health administrator and part-time sleuth Jennifer Brooks find herself involved with an insurance claim, an apparently accidental death and a disappearance. Luckily her Cardigan Monty is there to once again help her out.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Full Title
Cardigan Corgi Capers - Dragons, Snails & Cardigan Tales
Category
Books
Year
2011
Country
Australia
Written by
Fay Beet
Photography by
Jan West
Published by
Press Here
ISBN
978-0-646-54796-1
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring dogs
The Cardigans at Llandaff
Comments
From the bygone official site of the artists: "If you love dogs and cute fairytale critters then this book is for you. Enjoy the delightful collection of whimsical artwork and photographs as the book spells out the words 'Cardigan Welsh Corgis'. Each letter of the phrase has a page with a picture and a poem". Combining photography with watercolour artwork, this looks to be yet another cute children's book featuring Corgis, more specifically Cardigans. It's reasonably sizeable at 56 pages (softcover) for such.
Category
Books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Jeffrey M. Poole
ISBN
9798672813776
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Sherlock & Watson
Comments
Corgi Case Files cozy mystery series reaches a landmark of sorts, that of the 10th installment, with this book. The protagonist Zack Anderson is once again in trouble with the police, who seem to be eager to pin a decades-old murder on him (not sure how that would work but so the book's blurb at GoodReads implies). Zack's Pembrokes Sherlock and Watson are luckily on hand to help sniff out the real culprit.
Links
Editions of the book @Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
Jeffrey M. Poole
Published by
Nook
ISBN
1649140290, 2940156000012
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Sherlock & Watson
Comments
In this the 6th book in the Corgi Case Files cozy mystery series, the amateur sleuth Zack Anderson and his Pembrokes Sherlock and Watson turn to a case close to home. Namely, to solving what really happened to Zack's late wife who supposedly perished in a car accident.
Links
Case of the Chatty Roadrunner information and reviews @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Jeffrey M. Poole
ISBN
9798652392499
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Sherlock & Watson
Comments
In this the 9th book of Corgi Case Files series "everyone's favorite canine crime-fighting duo, Sherlock and Watson"1 — and of course their human owner Zack Anderson — are on the trail of yet another murderer, this time targeting the members of an adventure-seeking thrill club.
1) according to the book's blurb found @ Goodreads, see Links below
Links
Editions of the book listed @Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2016
Country
USA
Written by
Jeffrey M. Poole
Published by
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1539869865 (ISBN13: 9781539869863)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Sherlock & Watson
Comments
Part the second in the Corgi Case Files cozy mystery series. Zack Anderson has gained a new Corgi, somewhat predictably named Watson, just in time to help him and his older Pembroke Sherlock to solve a murder apparently commited by a 3,000 year old mummy...
Links
Case of the Fleet-Footed Mummy information and reviews @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Jeffrey M. Poole
ISBN
9781649140418 (ISBN10: 164914041X)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Sherlock & Watson
Comments
Book 11 in the Corgi Case Files cozy mystery series is set in the Thanksgiving time. Zack Anderson, the amateur sleuth of the series, his fiancee Jillian and his trusty canine detective companions Sherlock and Watson are on the hunt for a not so heinous criminal who solely steals... Cranberries. And surprisingly doesn't apparently even murder anyone in the process!
Links
Editions of the book @Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Jeffrey M. Poole
Published by
Nook
ISBN
2940163379347
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Sherlock & Watson
Comments
The 7th book in the Corgi Case Files cozy mystery series finds Sherlock, Watson and their human Zack Anderson on a ghost hunting mission. Which somewhat predictably soon turns into a murder investigation.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2016
Country
USA
Written by
Jeffrey M. Poole
Published by
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1541237668 (ISBN13: 9781541237667)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Sherlock & Watson
Comments
The third book in Corgi Case Files cozy mystery series is a Christmas holiday special. A string of Christmas present burglaries starts the Corgis Sherlock and Watson as well as their somewhat preoccupied-with-other-matters owner Zack Anderson on the trail of the thief in hopes of catching him/her before anyone gets physically hurt.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Jeffrey M. Poole
Published by
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1986980820 (ISBN13: 9781986980821)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Sherlock & Watson
Comments
The fifth book in Corgi Case Files finds the human protagonist Zachary Anderson, ably assisted by the Pembrokes Sherlock & Watson, on the trail of a serial killer.
Links
About the book @GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2015
Country
USA
Written by
Jeffrey M. Poole
Published by
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1517330343 (ISBN13: 9781517330347)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dog
Sherlock
Comments
A sleepy town in somewhere in the more-rural-than-not USA and an amateur sleuth with a Corgi for a company... Sound familiar? Well, all the same this is the first book in a new (for CSDb) whodunit series called Corgi Case Files.
The protagonist Zack Anderson (a somewhat rare male one in a cozy mystery thriller) inherits an estate from one of his late wife's relatives and ends up in Pomme Valley, Oregon — and under suspicion of theft and murder. Luckily, he also comes by a Corgi named Sherlock who seems to have an unusual knack for sniffing out clues...
Links
Case of the One-Eyed Tiger information and reviews @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Jeffrey M. Poole
Published by
Nook
ISBN
2940163394869
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Sherlock & Watson
Comments
A dead (presumably murdered) SCUBA diver and otters using gold coins to open shellfish provide a new case for the amateur sleuth Zack Anderson and his Pembrokes Sherlock and Watson to solve in book eight of the Corgi Case Files cozy mystery series.
Links
Editions of the book @Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
Jeffrey M. Poole
Published by
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1981715738 (ISBN13: 9781981715732)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Sherlock & Watson
Comments
The cozy mystery series Corgi Case Files continues with this part the fourth. This time, the human protagonist Zachary Anderson is actually asked to look into a case of dognappings as an official police consultant, along with his Pembrokes Sherlock & Watson of course. It's a mystery on its own why this sort of thing doesn't happen more often in cozy mystery novels.
Links
About the book @GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2021
Country
USA
Written by
Jeffrey M. Poole
ISBN
9781649140500 (ISBN10: 1649140509)
ASIN
B08VF8RN78
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Sherlock & Watson
Comments
Book 12 in the Corgi Case Files. As in the previous part of the series, it looks like the crime deviates from the cozy mystery standard: the protagonists Zack Anderson and his Pembrokes Sherlock and Watson are not investigating a murder but instead an unsolved theft from over a century ago.
Links
Editions of the book @Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2010
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
Bantam Books (first printing)
ISBN
0553807072
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Around mid-2000's it was predicted by some that Ms. Brown's long running Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series would be winding down but over a decade later (in 2018), to much delight of the fans I'm sure, there is no actual sign of that.
This title is the 18th in the series and (according to GoodReads, see link below) involves "Harry's beloved and tart-tongued Aunt Tally [who] is about to turn the big 1-0-0". To honour the event, "the alumnae association of her alma mater sees an opportunity to [ ...] recoup some of the school revenue lost in the cratered economy. But soon [...] a suspicious transaction is discovered in the association's account: board member Mariah D'Angelo has mysteriously withdrawn and then replaced $25,000. But was that enough to get her killed? Mariah's car is on campus, she's gone missing, and Tucker has found human blood near the school's stables". And so it's once again up to the intrepid trio of animals, including the series titular cat Mrs. Murphy and her aforementioned Corgi sidekick Tee Tucker, to help save the day.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
1999
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
American Artists, Inc. / Bantam Books (first printing)
ISBN
0-553-09971-X (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Number 7 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 a missing person case AND a murder connected with the local politics over a new reservoir. From author's official site: "While the clever tiger cat and her friends sift through clues that just don't fit together, more than a few locals fear that the ensuing scandal will force well-hidden secrets into the harsh light of day. In the end, Mrs. Murphy's relentless tracking has consequences even she cannot imagine. When her efforts place loved ones in danger, it takes more than a canny kitty and her team of animal sleuths to set things right again".
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2002
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Art by
Michael Gellatly (line art, presumably in the 1st printing)
Published by
Bantam Doubleday Dell (assumed first printing)
ISBN
0553107445 (assumed first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
This is number 10 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, a case of stolen hubcaps leads to murders and mayhem. I'm starting to wonder if anybody dies from old age or illness in the small towns of Virginia? From Barnes&Noble: "As [Harry] and her furry cohorts — the cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker — get mud on their boots and paws mapping local terrain and relationships and sniffing out telltale scents of villainy, someone is watching their every move". A Corgi-L poster comments on the line illustrator Michael Gellatly: "[He] has really caught the fluffy butt, the stubbies, the Corginess. Too bad he didn't do the illustration for the cover, but we can't have everything, I guess!".
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2005
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Art by
Michael Gellatly (line art, first printing)
Published by
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (first printing)
ISBN
0553801643 (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
In mid-2000's, Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series was considered by some to be winding down and in fact many presumed this, the 13th outing for the series-titular cat Mrs. Murphy and her Pembroke sidekick Tee Tucker, would be the last — which turned out to not to be the case at all.
On the subject of Cat's Eyewitness specifically, it seems to deal less than previously with the talking, sleuthing animals and more with issues such as religion and lesbianism. Of course there still are murders to be solved and a "shocking revelation of a mystery that has perplexed the citizens of Crozet for ages" to be discovered.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Country
USA
Written by
Joe Martin
Art by
Joe Martin
Published by
Tribune Media Services
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Matty
Comments
One of the many creations of the "most prolific cartoonist in the World", Cats with Hands is "is anything but your typical fat-cat strip. In his latest and most imaginative creation, Joe Martin depicts a cat-centric universe without humans — a high-concept fantasy where cats live out human lives, yet remain, well, cats" (as stated on the now vanished Tribune Media website). In addition to intelligent cats — now there's an oxymoron (-;) — the cartoon also features talking mice and dogs. One the latter is a semiregularly appearing Pembroke (breed confirmed by the author) Matty. She's not on very often, unfortunately.
Links
Official site of the comic
Full title
Corgi Coloring: Celebrating with Scamp
Category
Books
Subcategory
Adult coloring books
Country
USA
Art by
Katie Fiete
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1981457399 (ISBN-13: 978-1981457397)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Scamp
Comments
Scamp the Pembroke, the protagonist of Katie Fiete's Corgi Coloring series of adult coloring books, celebrates various holidays in this December 2017 installment of the series. Fifty pages for your pasttime.
Scamp books are included in CSDb because his adventures tend to take him to decidedly fictional places, such as to visit the fairies.
Links
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
1983240605 (ISBN13: 9781983240607)
A SIN
B07DXSB1MM
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson, Flotsam and Jetsam
Comments
Number six in the rapidly expanding series Cozy Corgi Mysteries. Summer has come to Estes Park, Colorado, but that doesn't stop murderers from murdering and the amateur sleuth Winnifred Page from investigating with the help of her Pembroke Watson. This time around, there is an added complication of two other (very exhuberant) Pems being thrown in the mix as well.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
9798680065464
A SIN
B08GV91TL7 (Kindle edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
The exceedingly prolific cozy mystery author Ms. Abbot brings us part the 18 in her Cozy Corgi Mysteries series. This time around, our heroine the amateur sleuth Winnifred Page even witnesses the requisite murder herself! No doubt her Pembroke Watson is happy to help her both to recuperate from the shock and to solve the case yet again.
Links
Editions of the book @ Goodreads
Full title
Church Castle Corgis: The Tales From Church Castle Corgis Book One
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Susan Wilson
Published by
FriesenPress (first printing hardcover)
ISBN
1460228340 (ISBN-13: 978-1460228340)
Corgi breed
Unknown
Starring role
Butler and Matilda (?)
Comments
Described by the publisher as "juvenile fiction" (see Links below), this fantasy novel tells the story of Holly Brown who moves from New York to live on a farm. Among the animals that come with her new property are two "magical" Corgis (of undisclosed exact breed, probably named after two of the author's nine Corgis, Butler and Matilda). The dogs tag along when their new owner decides to go on an adventure in a magic alternate world called the Lands. A second book in the apparently intented series has remained unpublished as of September 2019.
Links
About the book @ publisher's site
Category
Books
Year
2001
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
This is number 9 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: "Hank Brevard, the hospital's plant manager, has had his throat slit from ear to ear, a violent and gruesome crime that no one can make sense of at first. [It's] Harry's trio of four-footed companions — her cats, Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and her corgi, Tucker — who discover the real secret at the hospital, which is connected to the facility's former function as a cornerstone of the Underground Railroad".
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2021
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
Bantam
ISBN
9780593130094 (ISBN10: 059313009X)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
For decades the stable of the Corgi-related cozies, Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series, has reached its 30th installment. Once more, there is a murderer afoot, and the crime has possible ties to a heated family squabble. No doubt both issues will be solved by the end of the book.
The blurb for the Kindle edition is notable for being the first one I remember that mentions Tee Tucker as the first of the animal sleuths — even if it is as a "hungry helper".
Links
Editions of the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2022
Country
USA
Written by
Jennifer Hawkins
Published by
Berkeley Books
ISBN
9780593197127 (ISBN10: 0593197127)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Oliver
Comments
Third book in Chatty Corgi Mysteries. Despite the author hailing from Michigan, it is set in Corwnwall, United Kingdom. This time around, the tea shop owner and amateur sleuth Emma Reed and her Pembroke Oliver are called upon to solve a murder mystery 40 years in the making. The quirk of the series is not the unsual location as such but, as the name implies, that Oliver actually talks — or at least his owner thinks she understands what he's saying.
Links
Editions of the book listed @GoodReads
Category
Books
Country
USA
Written by
Val Muller
Illustrated by
Yuming Cao
Published by
Bellows Books
ISBN
1940553032, 978-1940553030
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Raven
Comments
A childrens' picture book about a scaredy Pembroke who's owner, the titular Cora, tries to get him to see the bright side of each day. Somewhat unfortunately, Raven is based on author's own Pembroke Yoda who, like his fictonal counterpart, is afraid of very many things indeed. Hopefully there is a happy ending to both the book and to Yoda's real life tale.
Links
The author blogs about the publication of the book here
Category
Books
Year
2013
Country
USA
Written by
Laura M. Madsen
Published by
Alternate Universe Books
ISBN
1484842227 (first printing)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Pippin
Comments
This "middle-grade contemporary fantasy novel" (as described by the author) plays on the old Welsh tale of Corgis acting as steeds for faeries. The protagonist, according to the book's back cover blurb, "lives undercover with a human family but his secret mission is to serve Aliiana, an earth fairy, as her faithful steed". The novel has received good reviews (see Links below) but as of yet, despite the name, there is no sequel.
Links
Info and reviews @ Goodreads
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Country
USA
Written by
Kiwi
Art by
Kiwi
Corgi breed
Pembroke (well, most of them seem to be...)
Starring role
Wasabi
Starring dog
Wasabi
Comments
This succintly named web comic is a mixed media venture constructed around manipulated photographs of corgis. The main protagonist is unsurpringly enough the fantasy version of the author's pembroke Wasabi, who gets into a number of (mis)adventures set in a dog-populated fairy land.
Sadly, the real life Wasabi has passed away and the domain for the comic has lapsed. So Wasabi's fantasy adventures are highly unlikely to ever continue, but you can still read them at Wayback Machine (see Links below).
Links
Corgi Comics website @ Wayback Machine
Category
Books
Year
2009
Country
USA
Written by
Caroll O. Knipe
Art by
Fritz Knipe (photography)
Published by
Authorhouse
ISBN
9781438949147 (ISBN10: 1438949146)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring dogs
Dutch and Duchess
Starring role
Dutch and Duchess
Comments
According to GoodReads (see Links below), the author "has captured the essence of the Welsh Pembroke Corgi" in this children's books about Corgi life in the Santa Cruz mountains of California. Obviously the book is based on the author's real life dogs (and illustrated by photographs thereof), but Dutch's and Duchess' "confessions" (written in verse) are of course fictional.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Full title
The Corgi Games — Illustrated Doggerel
Category
Books
Year
2012
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
Susan Alison
Art by
Susan Alison
Published by
Createspace
ISBN
147766713X
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Various corgis participating in the titual event
Comments
According to GoodReads, this (children's) illustrated e-book tells a tale "in which Welsh Corgi dogs engage in various forms of sport (including sack racing) in their usual stylish and winning way". Told in rhyme and illustrated by the author.
See also Woofs of Wisdom on Writing.
Links
The Author talks about the book @ her GoodReads blog
Category
Books
Country
USA
Written by
Janice J. Ciarla
Published by
Xlibris Corporation
ISBN
9781453574980 (ISBN10: 1453574980)
Corgi breed
Pembroke (based on the cover)
Comments
Set in the fictional town of Redeemer, Oklahoma, the book tells the tale of Meredith Charlesby and her Corgi rescue work. According to book's blurb at Google Books, Redeemer fittingly of its name is a small close-knit Christian community. Since this is explicitly mentioned, one should expect more than an average dose of religious subject matter.
Links
The editions of the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Sandy Henry
Illustrated by
Robert M. Henry
Published by
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1500206539 (ISBN13: 9781500206536)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Cody
Comments
An illustrated children's book about a Pembroke who wants to be a cowboy. Maybe he missed the fact that Corgis are cattle dogs in real life.
Links
About the book @ Google
Category
Books
Year
2008
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
Ben M. Baglio
Published by
Scholastic
ISBN
0439025338 (ISBN13: 9780439025331)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Condor
Comments
Sometime back in the 1990's, Ben M. Baglio created a long-running series Animal Ark about Mandy Hope, a girl who works on helping various different animals at her family's titular vet practice in the town of Welford in Yorkshire. Well, mostly anyway, apparently some books in the series (that eventually reached #94 back in 2008) and various spin-offs had other stuff going on in them. No doubt in part because several different authors were commissioned to write different books in the series under the pen name "Lucy Daniels" (even Mr. Baglio seems to have used it for some books he wrote himself).
In any case, by about 2003 the series apparently had essentially turned into a new one called Animal Ark Holiday Special and in #24 under that name, a Valentine's Day book, we can read about Condor, the Pembroke with a secret who snarfs up too many cupcakes with drastic results. AFAIK no other books in the series feature Corgis of either varitety.
This book has Mr. Baglio himself as the credited author at both GoodReads and at Fantastic Fiction but it should be noted that the aforementioned sites disagree on which part and under which series title it was published: possibly because Animal Ark was published only in part and in different order in USA than in UK. I've decided to go with the information from the former above, you can find both in under Links below.
Links
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Caroll O. Knipe
Illustrated by
Fritz Knipe (photography)
Published by
AuthorHouse
ISBN
9781491864173 (ISBN10: 1491864176)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Megan & Dutch
Comments
A sequel to Corgi Confessions, this book for the whole family finds Dutch introducing the titular redwoods to a newcomer Megan. The corgis in the photos are of course real (and most likely belong to the Knipes) but the story, told in rhyme, is from the dogs' point of view and thus fictional.
Links
Editions of the book @ GoodReads
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Country
USA
Written by
sournote103
Art by
sournote103 (presumably)
Corgi breed
Unspecified (probably an anthropomorphic Pembroke)
Starring role
Bonabelle Fuzzmuffin III
Comments
Here's a rather curious one from the vaults (or "kumpujen yöstä" as we say in Finland)!
Not to be confused with this webcomic or this computer game, Corgi Quest was "an interactive web comic" that ran on the long bygone MS Paint Adventures forum from 2012 to 2014.
The story of CQ follows Bonabelle Fuzzmuffin III, an anthropomorphic Corgi bard on a quest to find the Encorgidion, a magic book hidden in the unnamed dungeon that serves as the setting for the adventure. Like in the other interactive comics on the MSPA forum, the plot was at least partially determined by forum members giving commands to the character(s) in the manner similar to old school text computer adventures. The game aspect of the comic relied heavily on Pathfinder role playing game rules and the main characters appearing in the comic had full character sheets available that were kept up-to-date with events in the comic.
After MSPA Forums' meltdown back in 2016, probably the only place where you can read CQ is in Wayback Machine: see Links below before it's gone forever!
Links
Corgi Quest interactive comic thread (or part thereof at least) @ Wayback Machine
Full Title
A Corgi Tale: A Short Novel about Short Dogs
Category
Books
Year
2015
Country
USA
Written by
J. Adaryn
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1500278602, 978-1500278601
Corgi breed
Cardigan, Pembroke
Starring dogs
Arthen & Eigra (Pembrokes) and Stubby (Cardigan)
Comments
According to Amazon.com, this is "a satirical adventure — with Corgis! Eigra and Arthen used to be ordinary Pembroke Welsh Corgis puppies [...] until the mysterious Cardigan Welsh Corgi Stubby visits them. The puppies learn that they are Wild Corgis — not meant to be pets — and escape into the woods with Stubby that night, headed toward the Land of the Corgi in the country of Wales."
I'm pretty sure my Corgis have never been particularly inclined to live as wild dogs as opposed to rather pampered pets but apparently, mileages vary... Anyway, this novel (clocking at 206 pages) was originally written for the NaNoWriMo YWP contest and inspired by the author's Pembroke Spock.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Jennifer Taylor-Haughey
Illustrated by
David H. Kelton
Published by
Grey Wolfe Publishing, LLC
ISBN
1628280247, 9781628280241
Corgi breed
Cardigan (probably)
Comments
According to this children's novelette's (clocking in at 44 pages) back blurb (see Links below), the author "was inspired to write this tale after [her Cardigan] Harley befriended a Pembroke Corgi, and didn't even notice his new friend didn't have a tail". Based on that and the fact that the story looks to be about two kids trying to hide the fact that the new dog they have befriended does in fact have a tail from their mother, I'm assuming the starring dog to be a Cardigan.
Links
About the book @ Google Books
Corgihouse Weihnachtspostamt, Das
Category
Books
Country
Germany
Written by
Billie Stahl
Illustrated by
Billie Stahl
Corgi breed
Cardigan & Pembroke
Comments
In The Corgihouse Christmas Post Office, Billie Stahl created a somewhat innovative "advent calendar in the form of a picture book". It is based on the Corgihouse.de Advent Calendar of 2009 and has a short introduction in German, English and French. Originally the book was available in either hardcover or softcover, but I suspect either version is currently very hard to find and chances of reprinting look bleak as Corgihouse.de has closed its doors, possibly permanently.
Category
Books
Year
2006
Country
USA
Written by
Colette Anjou
Art by
Evie Anderson
Published by
E & E Publishing
ISBN
0974893374
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Various Corgis reportedly loosely based on Evie Anderson's corgis Chloe and Gwen
Comments
Product description from Amazon.com for this succintly named book reads: "enjoy the antics of a community of Welsh Corgi dogs in this illustrated romp at home, at play and on the town!"
Much touted by adult reviewers for Ms. Aderson's "deligthfully whimsical" illustrations, the intented demographic is maybe something like three-year-olds. In other words, it's yet another children's book with corgis in it, this time in a very obvious starring role.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Full title
Corgis: One: A Dog Lover's Greyscale Colouring Book
Category
Books
Subcategory
Adult coloring books
Year
2018
Country
United Kingdom
Art by
Susan Alison
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1721726160 (ISBN13: 9781721726165)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
This is the third Corgi-themed adult coloring book by Susan Alison, containing "36 unique greyscale images based on original hand-drawn and watercolour-painted Susan Alison designs" with an "aim to bring you a smile or two" (quotes from GoodReads, see Links below).
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Full title
Corgis: Two — A greyscale colouring book
Category
Books
Subcategory
Adult coloring books
Year
2018
Country
United Kingdom
Art by
Susan Alison
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
9781726230759 (ISBN10: 1726230759)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
Fourth (in chronological order) of the Corgi-themed adult coloring books by Susan Alison, containing (to quote from GoodReads, see Links below) "36 unique greyscale images based on original hand-drawn and watercolour-painted Susan Alison designs of corgis going about their business. Like they do." This includes reading, selling icecream and other stuff corgis would not be enagaged in IRL, clever and talented as they are.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Full title
Corgis Rule! a Dog Lover's Colouring Book
Category
Books
Subcategory
Adult coloring books
Year
2016
Country
United Kingdom
Art by
Susan Alison
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1533390754 (ISBN-13: 978-1533390752)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
Susan Alison, author and illustrator of The Corgi Games and Woofs of Wisdom on Writing has also tried her hand at creating adult coloring books. This particular one contains 45 pages showing Pembrokes involved in various more or less fictional activities for you to work over.
This entry is about the A4 size edition of the book, there is also a "pocket sized" version that presumably has the same content so it doesn't have it's own entry. See Links below for a GoodReads information page.
Links
GoodReads links:
Full title
Corgis Rule Again! A dog lover's colouring book
Category
Books
Subcategory
Adult coloring books
Year
2017
Country
United Kingdom
Art by
Susan Alison
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN
1548363650 (ISBN13: 9781548363659)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
Susan Alison's second adult coloring book with "45 pages of unique artwork based on original hand-drawn [...] designs of Corgis going about their business. Like they do" (quoted from GoodReads, see Links below).
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2003
Country
USA
Written by
Tasha Tudor
Art by
Tasha Tudor
Published by
Boyds Mills Press
ISBN
1932425004 (first edition hardcover)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Various denizens of Corgiville
Comments
From Barnes&Noble: "In this third story set in imaginary Corgiville, home to corgis, cats, rabbits and some eccentric families, Christmas is coming". That about sums it up, I think, but to rephrase: it's a Christmas time book set in Corgiville we've come to know from the two previous books in the Corgiville series: the plot, however, does not carry over from the previous books. There's a Japanese edition that has been around for a while longer, but this is the first US edition.
Links
Category
Books
Year
1971
Country
USA
Written by
Tasha Tudor
Art by
Tasha Tudor
Published by
Little, Brown & Company
ISBN
0316853127 (Little Brown & Company's first edition hardcover)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Various denizens of Corgiville
Comments
From Tasha Tudor's website (see Links): "In Corgiville, as in any small towns all over America, the biggest event of the year is the fair. The sights, sounds, smells, and all the fun and excitement of a typical small-town fair are captured with humor and affection both in the text and in the marvelously detailed watercolor paintings." Corgiville Fair is a children's book with watercolor paintings depicting a goat race held in a town peopled by Welsh Corgis as well as cats, rabbits and green trolls. Presumably very heart-warming stuff here for the adults as well. This is the first book in the Corgiville series, although the plot does not carry over into the sequels. Several of Mrs. Tudor's other books also include pictures of Pembrokes, see the Corgiville series link above for more details.
Links
Full title
The Puppy Place: Cooper
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Ellen Miles
Published by
Scholastic Inc.
ISBN
054560382X, 9780545603829
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Cooper
Comments
This is #35 in a long-running series about various puppies being rescued and helped to find new homes by the children of Peterson family, Lizzie and Charles. This is the only part in the series to feature a Corgi, since Ms. Miles hasn't seen fit to write one about a Cardi — as of yet anyway. The book is recomended for 3rd to 5th graders.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2004
Country
USA
Written by
Lea Herrick
Art by
Lea Herrick (?)
Published by
Cherokee Books
ISBN
978-1930052178 (presumed 1st edition, September 2004)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Ramsey
Comments
Ms. Herrick's corgi book begins like a proper fairytale: "Once upon a time, on a windswept island in a faraway land called Wales, there lived a little corgi dog named Ramsey..." It's still not too childish apparently and is being recommended "for the whole family". The book is based on the real life story of the author's own rescue Corgi, but is presented from Ramsey's point of view and thus qualifies as fiction. Kindle edition is also available.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
1999-2000 (2nd series, 1st series came out — no points for guessing — ealier)
Country
Japan
Written by
Hajime Yadate (this is a pen name used by various writers)
Art by
Cain Kuga (1st series), Nanten Yutaka (2nd series)
Published by
Sunrise
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Ein
Comments
The old adage "where there's anime, there's manga" holds true with Cowboy Bebop. Sunrise has published two series of further adventures of Ein the data dog and the group of bountyhunters he has adopted as his family. These have also been published in USA by AnimeNation, the 1st series under the title Cowboy Bebop: Shooting Star. According to the Future Blues site (see links below), "The Cowboy Bebop Manga version ran in the Monthly manga collection called Asuka Fantasy DX. Like the TV series, the Manga appears to be episodic in nature, each volume of DX containing a separate adventure". It's also worth noting that the character designs for the 1st series differ quite a bit from those in the anime show and the 2nd series. I presume Ein is still a Pembroke in it though.
There is also a non-canonical manga sequel of sorts (it essentially rewrites certain bits of the original anime show's ending I don't care to spoil for you) but it doesn't feature Ein or any other corgis AFAIK, so it'll be safe to ignore.
Links
About the manga @ Future Blues
Full title
Cowpie Corgi: A Dog's Tale
Category
Books
Year
2007
Country
USA
Written by
Randi Yocum
Art by
Sam Yocum
Published by
Grace Enterprises
ISBN
0966362934, 9780966362930
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Scout
Comments
Based on a review at GoodReads, this is a children's book about a farm Corgi named Scout who has gotten a bit dirty and is trying his very best to avoid getting a bath, but is tricked by the other farm animals into getting progressively smellier... Apparently it is based on real events, which isn't too difficult to believe.
Category
Books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
ISBN
9798616501011
ASIN
B0851MLT5J
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty, probably, as well as some other Cardigans
Comments
A possibly manipulated herding trial turns into a murder investigation in book 18 of Karen Harbert's dog show whodunit series Murder at the Dog Show. Mental health administrator and Cardigan Welsh Corgi breeder Jennifer McLeod (née Brooks) is again in the thick of it, presumably with her Cardigan Monty.
Links
Editions of the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
1973449293, 9781973449294 (first printing paperback)
A SIN
B077XMYWNQ (Kindle edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
When the blurb for a book starts with "Estes Park, Colorado: picturesque mountains, charming shops, delightful bakeries, a cozy bookstore... and murder" and it's up on CSDb you can immediately tell it's yet another cozy mystery featuring a Corgi — and not unexpectedly, the start of a series (of which no less than eight parts came out within a year[!]).
This time our amateur sleuth is Winifred ("Fred") Page, returning home to Estes Park (a real world location for a change) to start her life anew after a divorce and a business partnership catastrophe, to open a bookstore ("The Cozy Corgi" that also names the series) and to run afoul of a murder. Luckily she has her Pembroke Welsh Corgi, the aptly named Watson, for a sidekick.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Full title
Corgi Capers: Curtain Calls and Fire Halls
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Val Muller
Published by
Dancing with Bear Publishing
ISBN
0692322124 / 9780692322123
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Zeph and Sapphie
Comments
The third installment in this series of "middle-grade mystery novels" finds young sleuth Adam Hollinger with a case of money stolen from firefighters on his hands. Adam's two Pembrokes Zeph and Sapphie are on for the ride as well of course, although it appears they are more interested in escaping to the woods than in catching the thief. The Corgis in the Corgi Capers books are based on author's two Pembrokes Yoda and Leia.
Links
Official home page of Corgi Capers
Full title
The Dark Tower Volume VII: The Dark Tower
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2004
Country
USA
Written by
Stephen King
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Marlowe
Comments
This is the grand finale of Stephen King's epic American fantasy The Dark Tower, a sprawling series that gets A+ for effort but B- for the quality (from me, obviously — see Links below for a great many very positive reviews). The final volume is not quite the most flawed of the bunch but it does come close. Among its redeeming features is the very brief but heartwarming appearance of Marlowe the tough old Pembroke in Part Three, Chapter IV, Subchapter 4 (yes, it's that kinda book). Now technically Marlowe was a real dog, Mr. King's dog in fact, but here his appearance, as that of his master, is quite fictionalized enough for inclusion. Say thankya.
PS. For those who might want to delve into the series anyway, there is the fact that one of the main characters is Oy, a talking (sort of anyway), vermin-hunting fantasy animal, who is rather obviously a not-Corgi. The fact is almost spelled out near the end of this novel. However, as King doesn't own up to Oy being a Corgi (and like I said, he's not officially even a dog), the series only counts for a minor sighting.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1996
Country
Canada
Written by
C. C. Benison (pen name of Doug Whiteway)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
various pems of the Queen Of Britain
Comments
The first book in the Her Majesty Investigates series (alternatively know as Jane Bee - Housemaid to the Queen). A mystery thriller where Her Majesty the Queen assings her Canadian housemaid to investigate a murder. According to Susan Bemus, "The Royal Corgis are very peripheral to the storyline, but they're there!". The Random House paperback even has them on the cover, see Links below.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1997
Country
Canada
Written by
C. C. Benison (pen name of Doug Whiteway)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
various pems of the Queen Of Britain
Comments
The second book in the Her Majesty Investigates series (alternatively know as Jane Bee - Housemaid to the Queen). A mystery thriller where Her Majesty the Queen assings her Canadian housemaid to investigate a murder. According to Susan Bemus, "The Royal Corgis are very peripheral to the storyline, but they're there!".
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1998
Country
Canada
Written by
C. C. Benison (pen name of Doug Whiteway)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
various pems of the Queen Of Britain
Comments
Third and the latest (and very likely the last, as the author seems to feel it's no longer sensible to continue writing in general) in the Her Majesty Investigates AKA Jane Bee - Housemaid to the Queen series. A mystery thriller where Her Majesty the Queen assings her Canadian housemaid to investigate a murder. According to Susan Bemus, "The Royal Corgis are very peripheral to the storyline, but they're there!".
Links
Category
Books
Year
2012
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
A SIN
B00AMNFRTY
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
Third book in Karen Harbert's dog show whodunit series Murder at the Dog Show.
For this installment, our interprid amateur detective, mental health administrator and Cardigan Welsh Corgi breeder Jennifer Brooks heads to Oregon with his champion Cardigan Monty for a (probably imaginary) dog show circuit that gives this book it's unusually sinister-sounding name. Not that there actually aren't sinister things afoot, of course...
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Full title
Corgi Capers: Deceit on Dorset Drive
Category
Books
Year
2012
Country
USA
Written by
Val Muller
Published by
Dancing With Bear Publishing
ISBN
0615592236 / 978-0615592237
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Zeph and Sapphie
Comments
The first in a series of "middle-grade mystery novels" (targeting readers aged 8–12). Fifth-grader Adam Hollinger has two Corgi puppies on his hands and a series of neighborhood burglaries that has left police stumped to solve. Adam's two Pembrokes, the scaredy Zeph and the rambunctious Sapphie, are based on author's two Pembrokes Yoda and Leia that have the same mentality as their fictious counterparts.
Links
Official home page of Corgi Capers
Category
Books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
9798657033748
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
The 17th instalment in Cozy Corgi Mysteries by the prolific Ms. Abbot. The protagonist is, as always, bookstore owner and part-time sleuth Winifred "Fred" Page, whose friend Katie has agreed agreed to make the scandals of her childhood into a documentary. Which obviously lead to murder eventually, and so Fred and her Pembroke Watson must once again go on the trail of a killer.
Links
Editions of the book @Goodreads
Full title
The Diamond Age: Or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1995
Country
USA
Written by
Neal Stephenson
Published by
Bantam Spectra
ISBN
First editions: 0-553-09609-5 (hardcover), 0-553-38096-6 (paperback)
Corgi breed
Not disclosed, but probably Pembroke
Starring role
Several corgis of Constable Moore, an important minor character
Comments
This much lauded and influential postcyberpunk novel (it won both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1996 and was shortlisted for the Nebula) contains some brief mentions of Corgis. They belong to a minor character, Constable Moore, who takes one the book's principal protagonist, Nell, under his tutelage at one point.
Stephenson's trademark wry prose paints the dogs as something of nuisance, as evidenced for example in the first sentence where they are mentioned: "Constable Moore himself could be descried behind a screen of somewhat leggy rhododendrons, hard at work with a shovel, constantly harassed by angle-biting Corgis." There are just some three or four short scenes where they put in an appearance as well, but all the same, despite being a bit lacking of a consistent plot, The Diamond Age is a quite sound work and moreover requisite reading for anyone interested in the development of modern science fiction.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2001
Country
USA
Written by
Emily Carmichael (real name Emily Krokosz)
Published by
Bantam
ISBN
0553582836 (ISBN13: 9780553582833)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Miss Piggy
Comments
Not to be confused with great many books of the same name, this is the second part in a light comedic romance series featuring Miss Piggy, a pembroke who in fact is a reincarnated human woman. From Amazon.com: "Piggy, the conniving corgi from Carmichael's Finding Mr. Right, is back to defuse danger and play cupid in this cute and cuddly romantic caper. This time Piggy must find a mate for Joey DeMato, a hardworking wedding planner who has little time for men or corgis [...] Piggy's monologues interrupt the novel's pacing and are often redundant, but her sassy demeanor keeps the tale lively. Dog lovers and romance readers will enjoy this satisfying stocking stuffer". Beverly Morgan Lewis says (on Corgi-L): "I think it would make a cute movie: The Wedding Planner meets The Bodyguard meets Beethoven". See the series page for Miss Piggy's other (mis)adventures.
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
Bob
Comments
According to the long defunct Paradise Valley Comics site (see Links below for possibly the last version with actual content), Diggby tells the tale of "Diggby — wacky living cartoon plus his longsuffering creator, cartoonist Eve Moon, and her philosophical corgi, Bob". Diggby has appeared in at least the following Paradise Valley comic books and collections: Big Diggby Flip Book (a big surprise there...), Dog & Pony Show (Paperback - 180 pages; published July 12, 2001; ISBN 0970944209) and Goblin.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1982 (March, probable first edition)
Country
USA
Published by
Knopf (probable first edition)
ISBN
0394523814 (probable first edition)
Written by
Anne Tyler
Corgi breed
Unknown
Comments
This Anne Tyler novel about a dysfunctional family reputedly contains a very brief mention of Corgis.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book (a novella, really)
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Richard Wolkomir
ASIN
B00KUR68AE
Published by
Amazon Kindle
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Snikia(?)
Comments
A novella published on Kindle, presumably inspired by how a "Pembroke Welsh corgi came to live with us, and I got to thinking I could read his mind", as explained by the author on Amazon.com. Short and possibly also more autobiographical than fictional, I decided to list this story int the Minor sighting category.
Links
About the novella @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
1960
Country
USA (probably originally published in UK)
Written by
Essex Hope
Art by
Faith Jacques
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Bob(by)
Comments
From The Columbia River Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club book reviews: "Bob, a Pembroke Welsh Corgi pup [is] given to Richard for his birthday. Richard is most upset that the puppy isn't allowed to sleep in bed with him and he is also upset at the names the family have suggested for the new pup. He names the puppy Bob, but calls him Bobby in private [...] Bob runs away in terror during a fireworks display and the story follows his adventures to a happy ending". This book is apparently somewhat on a rare side.
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
A SIN
B073R1S4BL
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty (assumed)
Comments
In this the 13th volume in Karen Harbert's dog show whodunit series Murder at the Dog Show, vandalism against dog shows acts as a precursor to a worse crime. Presumably Jennifer Brooks and her Cardigan Monty are involved in the investigation, although they are not mentioned in the book's blurb (see Links below).
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Full title
The Dogpyre Syndrome: The Winnie Chronicles: Book Two
Category
Books
Year
2015 (1st edition)
Country
USA
Written by
Sandy Woolworth
Illustrated by
Carol Tippit Woolworth
ISBN
0985264527 (ISBN13: 9780985264529)
Published by
Tipworth Press (1st edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Winnie Dumont
Comments
Second part in a series of illustrated Corgi books for all ages.
Things get weirder this time around for Winnie, a courageous corgi in a wheelchair. According to Goodreads (see Links below) "a gang of blood sucking, mindless dogs, known as Dogpyres [...] have turned Winnie's little neighborhood upside down and everyone's scrambling to find out why".
The protagonist is based on the author's own dog (also called Winnie).
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Alternate title
The Little Golden Book of Dogs
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1952
Country
USA
Written by
Nita Jonas
Art by
Tibor Gergely (1957 edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
From The Columbia River Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club book reviews: "There are short poems and simple drawings of 20 breeds. The Corgi:- 'The Welsh Corgi is brown with four little white socks
- He's a very good watchdog and looks like a fox
- With his tiny stub tail and his sharp little face
- He seems quite at home almost any old place'.
The book referred to at CRPWCC site is most likely the 1957 edition and is listed as the Little Golden Book #260, but it has been previously (in 1952) published under the alternate title The Little Golden Book Of Dogs. Barnes & Noble listed this last with series number of 532, but very likely the numbers should be the other way around. Also, it is possible that the earlier edition had photos instead of Gergely's drawings. To confuse the issue further, there are several other books in the Golden Books line about dogs that probably don't mention Corgis...
Anyway, a rather marginal addition to the database, but the poem is too cute to pass up on (-;)
Links
Category
Books
Year
1993
Country
USA
Written by
Dave Pilkey
Art by
Dav Pilkey
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Dogzilla
Starring dog
Leia
Comments
From the author's site back in the day: "A spoof of the movie Godzilla, with dog and mice characters. When Dogzilla invades Mousopolis, the rodent inhabitants must decide on a plan to rid themselves of this terrible menace before their city is chewed to pieces. [...] A wacky tale featuring colorful collages, manipulated photographs, and paintings. Warning: Some material may be too goofy for grown-ups!".
Prolific children's book author Dav Pilkey is probably best known for his Captain Underpants series of superhero spoof books, this is one his less well known earlier efforts. In fact even the author himself no longer seems to regard it worth mentioning in his site's bibliography.
inks
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
2001
Country
USA
Written by
Lydia Adamson (real name Franklin B. King)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Huck
Comments
Another cozy mystery novel (the 12th and so far the last in the Dr. Deirdre Quinn Nightingale AKA Dr. Nightingale Mystery series), with a woman veterinarian doing the sleuthing and a Corgi involved in the murder plot — albeit as a witness: according to Raelene Gorlinsky, "Huck the corgi witnessed his owner's murder, but that was no help to the humans trying to solve the case. Quote: 'He was the living witness. But neither she nor the authorities spoke Corgi tongue. It was a very exotic language'".
Despite him being on the book's cover, there is apparently rather little of Huck in the book so I've demoted it to minor sighting status.
inks
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Year
2015-2016 (Corgi appearances)
Country
USA
Written amd Illustrated by
Derek Baxter
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Daley
Comments
This, another already ended web comic, ran between 2012 and 2022 under the tagline "taking the sobriety out of comics". It wasn't all (or even mostly) about cats imbibing however, and among the various subjects the authors and artists Derek Baxter (who seems to have done most of the comics) and Brian Cannini dealt with there are close to thirty strips where Daley the Pembroke shares his thoughts with the reader. These include paying tribute to Prince and giving a scathing review of Batman vs Superman while appropriately attired, as well as regular (comics) Corgi antics. All Daley bits are done by Baxter and it's conceivable Daley is based on his real life dog.
Links
Official site of Drunken Cat Comics
Original English title
Vet in a Spin
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1979 (1st Finnish printing)
Country
Finland (original: United Kingdom)
ISBN
951-1-05407-4 (1st Finnish printing)
Published by
Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava
Written by
James Herriot
Finnish translation by
Heidi Järvenpää
Corgi breed
Unknown
Starring role
Kippari
Comments
This is the Finnish translation of Vet in a Spin containing the short story Jingo & Skipper.
Och samma på Finska:
Novelli Jingo & Skipper on julkaistu suomeksi kirjan Eläinlääkäri vauhdissa neljäntenä lukuna. Hieman epäloogisesti (ihmisten nimet on jätetty suomentamatta) Jingosta on tullut Jeppe ja novellin tosiasiallisesta eläinpäähenkilöstä, Skipper-Corgista Kippari: "Samanaikaisesti Jeppen erottamaton ystävä Corgi Kippari kalusi hellästi Jeppen takajalkaa." Vanhan alfacorgin ja sen rakkaan elävän purulelun, nuoren bullterrierin, tarina on surumielinen, mutta loppu sentään onnellinen.
Novelli itsessään pyörii melko pitkälti Corgin ympärillä, mutta muussa kirjassa sitä tai muitakaan corgeja ei mainita. Siksi olen laskenut tämän vain "pikkuhavainnoksi".
Category
Books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
ISBN
9781946227560 (ISBN10: 1946227560)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
Book 12 in A Southern Quilting Mystery series. Noo-noo the Pembroke, another murder with a large cast of suspects and a new grand-baby keep the retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman too busy to do any quilting.
Links
Editions of the book @Goodreads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1944 (1st edition)
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
Enid Blyton
Illustrated by
Eileen A. Soper (1st edition)
Published by
Hodder & Stoughton (1st edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
This book apparently marks the first publication of The Kind Little Dog short story. The other 17 stories most likely don't have Corgis in them, hence this is a minor sighting only.
Links
About the book @ The Enid Blyton Society
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
9781676477273 (ISBN10: 1676477276)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
Exceedingly prolific cozy mystery author provides a "Christmas special" with this the 15th book in her Cozy Corgi Mysteries series. To steal from book's blurb at Goodreads, "[N]o place is more perfect for the winter holidays than the charming mountain town of Estes Park"... Aside of the fact that murders and mayhem that tend to occur there, of course. Luckily the human protagonist Winifred Page and her Pembroke Watson are there to help the local police.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Published by
NAL
ISBN
1946227218 (ISBN13: 9781946227218)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
In this the seventh book in A Southern Quilting Mystery series, a quilting event falls to pieces and one of the quilters falls victim to a murder (it's a quilting mystery, you see). The retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman once more takes it upon herself to find the killer. Presumably Noo-noo the Pembroke also still makes an appearance in the text as as well as on the cover.
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2012
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
A SIN
B00AMNFJQK
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
Karen Harbert's dog show whodunit series Murder at the Dog Show continues with this the second installment, where Jennifer Brooks and her champion stud Cardigan Monty are drawn into solving a case of murdered dog show judges. There is apparently romance in the air as well this time around.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Mel McCoy
ISBN
9781689011587 (ISBN10: 1689011580)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Winston
Comments
In this the third book of Whodunit Pet Mystery series, the human protagonist Sarah Shores once more has to catch a murderer in Cascade Cove, Florida. Winston the Pembroke provides assistance (presumably, despite my failure to find any mentions of him, as he shows up on the covers of the latter books).
Links
Category
Books
Year
2001
Country
USA
Written by
Doranna Durgin
Published by
Baen Books (first printing)
ISBN
0671319949 (first printing)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Druid (Champion Nuadha's Silver Druid)
Comments
A refreshingly low key horror novel in the vein of Stpehen King (only considerably better than many of the Mr. Kings overbloated volumes) from Ms. Durgin, a rather prolific author of several science fiction, fantasy and thriller books. The Cardigan is extemely well described here, which comes as no surprise since at the time of writing the novel Ms. Durgin had no less than three of those herself — apparently, she has since switched to Beagles \-:)
The story is pretty self-contained but all the same there is a sequel of sorts, a short story featuring Druid and his owner Brenna Fallon. As far as I know, no other books by Ms. Durgin contain mentions of Corgis.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2015
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
A SIN
B016NHSEAG
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
In this the tenth volume in Karen Harbert's dog show whodunit series Murder at the Dog Show, death comes calling for the amateur sleuth, mental health administrator and Cardigan Welsh Corgi breeder Jennifer Brooks herself. Luckily, she has her trusty Cardigan Monty (and to no doubt lesser degree, soon-to-be-husband Alex) to help her out.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2012
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
A SIN
B00AMNAYRO
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
Long time Cardigan breeder and former mental health professional Karen Harbert (of Aelwyd kennel) draws heavily on her own experiences for the premise of this murder mystery series featuring the investigations of Jennifer Brooks, Mental Health Administrator and breeder and exhibitor of champion Cardigan Welsh Corgis. Some readers think too heavily, and complain that the mystery and police procedure aspects of the story are something of a letdown in this the first book of the Murder at the Dog Show series (published solely on Amazon Kindle). Be that as it may, Ms. Harbert has turned out to be a prolific whodunit author as can be seen at the series page.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
1998
Country
USA
Published by
Bantam (first printing paperback)
ISBN
055357874X (first printing paperback)
Written by
Emily Carmichael (real name Emily Krokosz)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Miss Piggy
Comments
From Amazon.com: "Right before her untimely death, Lydia Keane made one terrible mistake — she had an affair with her best friend Amy's husband. Barred from the afterlife until she makes amends, Lydia has been ordered back to Earth for one final mission: to find Amy a new husband. But there is just one small catch: Lydia must rely on her smarts rather than her centerfold body — because she has been reincarnated as a mangy stray dog!" Judging by the quote and the testimony of Sanna Kuusela, the book is light romance with some fantastic and comedic undertones. See the series page for Miss Piggy's further (mis)adventures.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
ISBN
9781946227461 (ISBN10: 1946227463)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
Book 11 in A Southern Quilting Mystery series features a family feud over the sale of a business... And murder, of course. Obviously it falls to the series protagonist, retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman to solve the case before another one occurs, with (one assumes) some help from Noo-noo the Pembroke.
Links
Full title
Flanerie Will Get You Nowhere: The Winnie Chronicles Book Three
Category
Books
Year
2021
Country
USA
Written by
Sandy Woolworth
Illustrated by
Carol Tippit Woolworth
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Winnie Dumont
Comments
Surprisingly, long dormant illustrated all-ages book series The Winnie Chronicles resurfaced with this the third part (only available on Kindle). Winnie once again finds herself in trouble as she and her owners get kidnapped! Winnie's daring escape is followed by a dangerous trek through the sewers of the city.
The protagonist is based on the author's own dog (who was also called Winnie).
Links
About the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
2014
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
A SIN
B00QEHCLZK
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
Book eigth in Karen Harbert's mystery series Murder at the Dog Show. Trying to find a connection between two apparently unrelated tragic incidents calls a murderer's attention on mental health administrator and Cardigan Welsh Corgi breeder Jennifer Brooks and soon Monty the Cardigan must once again save his mistress.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Comics, graphic novels & cartoons
Country
New Zealand
Written by
Murray Ball
Art by
Murray Ball
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Prince Charles AKA Charlie
Comments
Footrot Flats by Murray Ball may be the best known comic to ever come out of New Zealand, partially because it was made into an animated feature film Footrot Flats - The Dog's Tail Tale in 1986. The comic strip is set in a somewhat rundown farm in New Zealand and its chief protagonist is the succintly named Dog, who is not a Corgi however but more likely a Border Collie (as the character was inspired by the author's Border Collie Finn).
Charlie, or officially Prince Charles, is a comic relief character, a pampered pembroke who occasionally comes to Dog's farm with the end result of much hilarity ensuing — with the joke often being on Charlie obviously.
Unfortunately, Charlie didn't make it into the aforementioned animated film and Mr. Ball retired the comic in 1995 so no new (mis)adventures of Charlie can be expected.
Links
Official site of the comic
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
J.A. Whiting
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
ISBN
9781726628945 (ISBN10: 1726628949)
ASIN
1726628949
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring roles
Bear and Lady
Comments
Book six in the Claire Rollins Mysteries series. This time, the eponymous amateur sleuth is called upon to find a missing college student (who may or may have been murdered — we can be pretty sure someone has been, since it's a mystery novel). In the search, Claire relies on her possibly paranormal intuition as well as, obviously, her Pembrokes Bear and Lady.
Links
Category
Books
Year
2018
Country
USA
Written by
J.A. Whiting
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
ISBN
9781717523303 (ISBN10: 1717523307)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring roles
Bear and Lady
Comments
Another cold murder case awaits Claire Rollins, the eponymous protagonist of this cozy mystery series (of which this is book five), and of course her Pembrokes Bear and Lady too. As we are getting warned about in the blurbs of the books in this series, there are mild paranormal elements in them, since Claire not just an amateur sleuth but may also be psychic — or maybe she's just really intuitive. I presume it's actually the former since many of Ms. Whittings's other books are quite open about this apparently divisive issue.
Links
Category
Books
Year
2017
Country
USA
Written by
J.A. Whiting
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
ISBN
9781976465048 (ISBN10: 1976465044)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring roles
Bear and Lady
Comments
Book four in the cozy mystery series about the eponymous Claire Rollins, who is obviously enough an amateur sleuth but may also be psychic, or just very intuitive. In addition of her personal abilities, she can also count on the help of her Pembrokes Bear and Lady when she needs to solve the cold case murder of a young graduate student — and prevent the killer from striking again.
Links
Category
Books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Rita Mae Brown
Published by
Bantam
ISBN
ISB-13: 9780593130056, ISBN-10: 0593130057 (first published paperback)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Tee Tucker
Comments
Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series soldiers on in this the 29th volume and so do the human and animal protagonists, faced this time around with a robbery at a brewery and of course an inevitable murder as well. The latter team is as ever lead by the sleuthing cat Mrs. Murphy, ably assisted by her Pembroke Corgi sidekick Tee Tucker, both apparently unaffected by the years that have seemingly passed in the books since the series began back in 1990.
Links
Editions of the book @GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
1938 (edition unknown)
Country
United Kingdom (this information refers to the US edition)
Written by
Essex Hope
Illustrated by
Stanislaus Brien
Published by
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Corgi breed
Mix
Starring role
Garry, a Corgi/Irish Terrier(?) mix
Comments
Originally published in UK under the title Turned Adrift, this is a true "story of a Welsh Corgi and how he went from hand to hand and was finally rescued by the author the day before he was to be put down" (quote from Barnes&Noble). A borderline inclusion I found whilst looking for another book (Joey) allegedly written by an author by the same name (anybody seen that one?). I assume it is fictionalised enough to be admissible.
See also A Dog For Richard.
Category
Books
Year
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
1097658295 (ISBN13: 9781097658299)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
In the 12th book of the fast-expanding Cozy Corgi Mysteries series, summer tourist season is on in Estes Park, Colorado, and downtown "bustles with celebrations, inventions, pastries, and murder..." (to quote from book's blurb at GoodReads, see Links below).
The very prolific author averages some five books a year and since every one requires at least one killing one has to wonder if she'll eventually depopulate the entire town. Fictionally, of course: Estes Park is a real place, which in itself is a bit of departure for a cozy mystery series.
Links
Editions of the book @ Goodreads
Category
Books
Year
1992
Country
USA
Written by
Denny Kodner
Art by
Arthur D. Smith AKA Art Smith
Corgi breed
Unknown
Starring role
A puppy eventually given to Mrs. Santa Claus
Comments
From The Columbia River Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club book reviews: "The story of Santa delivering pets to children for Christmas [...] The sleigh crashes and the dogs have to rescue Santa [...] The Corgi puppy is a mischief maker but saves the day, and ends up as Santa's present to Mrs. Claus". This book is a fundraiser for the Morris Animal Foundation and the Dog Museum. That's all I could find out unfortunately.
Full title
The Girl Who Got Her Tiger On — And the Dog Who Had Her Back
Category
Books
Year
2021
Country
USA
Written by
Richard Volkomir
Published by
Worcester Range Books
ISBN
9798751257781 (Kindle Direct Publishing ISBN)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
William
Comments
Multi-genre author and consummate Corgi person Richard Volkomir provides us with another thriller, and as is almost inevitable with his novels, there is also a member of his favorite dog breed in it.
The book's protagonist Emmeline Pinski, a troubled girl who mostly only connects with William the Pembroke, is convinced her new neighbors are criminals. And the book's rather spoilery blurb at Goodreads tells us, she's right...
Links
Editions of the book @ Goodreads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Year
1987
Illustrated by
Tasha Tudor
Published by
Lutterworth Press
ISBN
071882685X (ISBN13: 9780718826857)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
Tasha Tudor's ubiquitous Pembroke Corgis make a small appearance in this book, according to Annette Sheppard. Several of Mrs. Tudor's other books also include pictures of Pembrokes, see the Corgiville series for more details.
Links
Category
Books
Year
1977 (first edition)
Country
United Kingdom
Written by
Paul Callan
Illustrated by
John Battaglia
Published by
Hodder and Stoughton (first edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Gladwyn, a native Welsh Pembroke
Comments
According to Anita Nordlunde, "Gladwyn is a Pembroke whose ambition is to visit his relations in Buckingham Palace. He leaves his quiet home in Wales, has a most adventurous train journey, gets involved in a shopping expedition to Harrods and finally reaches the Palace". The Hodder And Stoughton edition has 86 pages.
Category
Books
Year
2003
Country
USA
Written by
Emily Carmichael (real name Emily Krokosz)
Published by
Bantam (1st edition mass market paperback)
ISBN
0553586335 (1st edition mass market paperback)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Miss Piggy
Comments
This book, not to be confused with many others with the same name, is the 3rd and possibly final outing for Miss Piggy, the Pembroke who is in fact a reincarnated human woman. This time around, according to Amazon.com, "Piggy inherits a fortune from an old man she visited as a therapy dog". The same reviewer is of a mind that it's ms. Krokosz's "insider's peek into the world of therapy pets and loveable characters, both human and otherwise, that make this lighthearted romp worth savoring". More light romance with comedic undertones from ms. Krokosz, possibly with a little more material for a dog person's interest floated in this time than previously. See the series page for Miss Piggy's other (mis)adventures.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Books
Year
2016
Country
USA
Written by
J.A. Whiting
Published by
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
ISBN
1540305376 (ISBN13: 9781540305374)
ASIN
B01M9HDCVT
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring roles
Bear and Lady
Comments
This starts a cozy mystery series about the eponymous Claire Rollins, a fairly new (and young) widow and a fairly freshly minted resident of Boston, Massachusetts (this last providing a mild diversion from the more typical imaginary cozy mystery book canvases). In addition to the help of her two Pembrokes (judging by the cover of the book they are Pems anyway), Bear and Lady, Claire utilizes either a very strong intuition or a slight extrasensory ability to solve murder mysteries. The author's page (see Links below) categorizes the series as a "paranormal cozy" so presumably it's meant to be the latter (maybe Ms. Rollins is clairevoyant I'll get me coat...).
While J.A. Whiting is a prolific author of cozy (and not so cozy) mysteries, paranormal and otherwise, I'm not aware of any other books of hers that have a Corgi presence in them.
Links
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Country
USA(?)
Written by
Emma Jensen
Published by
Signet
ISBN
0451201213 (ISBN13: 9780451201218)
Corgi breed
Unknown
Starring role
Name unknow - owned by the Marquess of Tregaron
Comments
From Barbara Nibling: "The dog is not a central part of the book, only a minor character, but an interresting addition to the scenes he was in".
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Minor sighting
Subcategory
Book
Country
United Kigdom(?)
Year
2014 (1st published)
Written by
Karen Hall
Published by
Books to Go Now (Kindle, 1st published), Createspace (paperback)
A SIN
B00PYYS216 (Kindle)
ISBN
1506102964 (paperback)
Corgi breed
Unknown, probably Pembroke
Starring role
Charlotte
Comments
Karen Hall has apparently somewhat specialized in Christmas romance stories and this novelette (89 pages in the Kindle edition, 130 in paperback) is one of those, with a side dish of humour, mystery and a Corgi sighting. According to one reviewer at GoodReads, the "adorable little [Corgi] almost steals the show", but I must still assume its role is a minor one. Correction welcome as always!
Category
Books
Year
1997
Country
USA
Written by
Tasha Tudor
Art by
Tasha Tudor
Published by
Little, Brown & Company
ISBN
0316855839 (ISBN13: 9780316855839)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Caleb, plus various other denizens of Corgiville
Comments
Tasha Tudor's website (see Links below) used to say this about the book: "Caleb Corgi, outstanding student and part-time private investigator, senses that something is amiss in Corgiville. He has noticed a sudden increase in the number of raccoons in town. They claim they are tourists just passing through, but Caleb feels secrecy and conspiracy in the air..." Presumably very heart-warming stuff here for the adults as well, although some are wont to see a certain amount of xenophobia in the setting.
This is the second book in the Corgiville series: the plot, however, does not carry over from book to book. Several of Mrs. Tudor's other books also include pictures of Pembrokes, see the Corgiville series link above for more details.
Links
Category
Books
Year
2011
Country
USA
Written by
Doranna Durgin
ASIN
B005PHALMA
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Druid (Champion Nuadha's Silver Druid)
Comments
Once upon a time in 2001, when CSDb was young and resided at a different address, a horror novel called A Feral Darkness featuring a very well written and prominent Welsh Corgi Cardigan character was published. This is a sequel to that. Unfortunately it's only a short story (availabe on Amazon Kindle and on Smashwords) and to be frank, the novel doesn't really want for a sequel that much anyway... But who knows, maybe one day.
Links
About the book @ GoodReads
Category
Games
Year
2021
Country
USA
Designed by
Alex Jerabek, Jules Naujoks & Annagret Nautsch
Produced by
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 dig 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
Books
Year
2013
Country
USA
ASIN
B00GT6GBL6
Written by
Linda A. Kajda
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
An unspecified number of Queen Elizabeth II's corgis
Comments
This illustrated (presumably by the author) children's book (apparently only available on Amazon Kindle) for ages four to eight aims to entertain and educate, more specifically about the (now erstwhile) Queen of Brittain and her corgis. Apparently, Ms. Kadja was planning this to be first in a series where the pilot for the titular airline, Bert the polar bear, and his crew of cheerful penguins travel to different places, but AFAIK no other volumes have surfaced.
Links
Editions of 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
Games
Year
2021
Country
USA
Designed by
Elisa Teague
Produced by
Ultra PRO
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Comments
Boardgames featuring Corgis aren't a dime a dozen, but here's one that does not only have a Corgi thrown in the mix but is actually Corgi themed! InCORGnito is apparently a pretty simple deduction and memory game for children of 8+ years, where the game round is formally started by a player saying "the secret item is a little bit like a corgi" and all "secret item" cards have a picture of Corgi in a costume. So it should be a pretty cute addition to any Corgi-loving board game enthusiast's game library — as long as the said person doesn't expect anything too challenging.
Links
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
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Karen Harbert
ISBN
9781072378709 (ISBN10: 1072378701)
Corgi breed
Cardigan
Starring role
Monty
Comments
This succintly named book is the 17th in Karen Harbert's dog show whodunit series Murder at the Dog Show. Mental health administrator and Cardigan Welsh Corgi breeder Jennifer Brooks and her trusty Cardi sidekick Monty are on the trail of some very shady, potentially murderous, home health aides.
Links
Editions of the book @GoodReads
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
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
ISBN
9781946227669 (ISBN10: 1946227668)
ASIN
B08CVVPQSF
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
Dappled Hills is the kind of small town where it’s hard to imagine anything bad happening, to quote from this book's blurb... Yet, because this is number 13 in A Southern Quilting Mystery series, it inevitably does, and so retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman is once again called upon to solve a murder. Noo-noo the Pembroke hangs along as well, of course.
Links
Editions of 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
2019
Country
USA
Written by
Mel McCoy
Published by
Self-published
ISBN
9781710036251 (ISBN10: 1710036257)
ASIN
1710036257
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Winston
Comments
The fourth volume book in Whodunit Pet Mystery series. The human protagonist and amateur sleuth Sarah Shores is trying to enjoy her first Christmas in Florida, but inevitably (this being a cozy mystery novel) there is also a murderer to catch, with the help Winston the Pembroke presumably — for some reason he's neither mentioned nor on the cover of this particular part of the series.
Links
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
2021
Country
USA
Written by
Elizabeth Spann Craig
ISBN
9781946227973 (ISBN10: 1946227978)
ASIN
B08X319KMJ (Kindle edition)
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Noo-noo
Comments
A Southern Quilting Mystery series continues with book 14. When a member of the Village Quilters guild of Dappled Hills, North Carolina, gets accused of murdering her neighbor, the retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman has to put aside quilt-work and go sleuthing. Along with Noo-noo the Pembroke, as he is still on the cover although he doesn't get a mention in the blurb.
Links
Editions of the book @Goodreads
Quilt Trip
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
The second book in a series about the (mis)adventures of Ralph, a Pembroke who is very keen to help around at South Linden farm but doesn't always quite succeed. This time around, he has to solve the mystery of the disappearing corn. Ralph books seem to only be available by direct order from the author herself.
Links
About the book @ author's home page
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
Books
Year
2020
Country
USA
Written by
Mildred Abbott
ISBN
9798552345427
ASIN
B088TWSX3B
Corgi breed
Pembroke
Starring role
Watson
Comments
Number 19 in the expansive Cozy Corgi Mysteries series. The amateur sleuth Winifred Page and her Pembroke Watson are once more on the trail of murderer in Estes Park, Colorado — which happens to be a real town as opposed to mostly imaginary ones in cozy mysteries. And apparently has a rather high rate of murders per capita.
Links
Editions of 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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