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Illustrator Wal Paget Series Dimsie Media type Print (Hardcover) Originally published 1925 Genre Children's literature Publisher Oxford University Press | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 1925 Pages 277 pp Followed by Dimsie Moves Up Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Children's literature Dimsie Moves Up, Swallows and Amazons, My Black Me, Death by Exposure, Looking for God | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimsie Goes To School is the first of the Dimsie books by author Dorita Fairlie Bruce. It was first published in 1921 under the title The Senior Prefect and changed in 1925 to Dimsie Goes To School. The book was illustrated by Wal Paget.
The protagonist of the book is ten-year-old Daphne Isabel Maitland, who is nicknamed Dimsie, on account of her initials. The book begins with Dimsie travelling in a train and about to start school at the Jane Willard Foundation, where her older cousin (also Daphne) is a prefect.
The popularity of the continuing series led to Dimsie Goes to School being reprinted several more times by the OUP, and in the 1950s by Spring Books. The illustrations kept pace with changing fashions, as the following two illustrations of the same scene demonstrate. In the 1983 edition published by Goodchild changes were also made to the text to reflect changing social mores.