Dogsbody is a 1975 children's novel by British writer Diana Wynne Jones, first published by Macmillan. It tells the story of Sirius, a star who is forced to live in the body of a dog on Earth. The book was Wynne Jones' fifth full-length novel (published the same year as her fourth and sixth novels, Cart and Cwidder and Eight Days of Luke). Source: Wikipedia (en)