Dick King-Smith's Book of Pets
Five classic tales from the master of animal adventures
$40.50
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2017
Summary
A delightful anthology from the master of animal adventures Dick King-Smith, featuring a never-before-published story.
In this collection of stories you will meet:
- A guinea-pig that can do clever tricks
- The Queen’s favourite Corgi pup
- A secret mouse hiding in a tree-house
- A chick that wants to be a duck
AND you’ll learn how to look after all kinds of pets!
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141388083 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141388080 |
| Author: | Dick King-Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 30mm |
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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. 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, The Hodgeheg, Martin’s Mice, The Invisible Dog, The Queen’s Nose and The Crowstarver. 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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