The Sheep-pig
40th Anniversary Edition
$18.68
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
13 June 2023
Summary
A brand new edition to celebrate 40 years of Babe with a delightful new introduction by Michael Morpurgo!
When Babe, the little orphaned piglet, is won at a fair by Farmer Hogget, he is adopted by Fly, the kind-hearted sheep-dog. Babe is determined to learn everything he can from Fly. He knows he can’t be a sheep-dog. But maybe, just maybe, he might be a sheep-pig …
From the number one author of animal magic comes this wonderful new edition of The Sheep-Pig. With a new forewor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141370217 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141370211 |
| Author: | Dick King-Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 11mm |
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About The Author
Dick King-Smith
Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. Later he taught at a village primary school.
His first book, The Fox Busters, was published in 1978. He wrote a great number of children’s books, including:
- The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe)
- Harry’s Mad
- Noah’s Brother
- The Hodgeheg
- Martin’s Mice
- Ace
- The Cuckoo Child
- Harriet’s Hare (winner of the Children’s Book Award in 1995)
At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children’s Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made OBE for services to children’s literature.
Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.
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