Dick King-Smith's Book of Pets Five classic tales from the master of animal adventures
Heftet /
2017
/ Engelsk
Product details
ISBN
9780141388083
Published
2017
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children's UK; Puffin
Weight
342 gr
Height
197 mm
Width
128 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
J, 02
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
496
Author
Biographical note
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.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!
A delightful anthology from the master of animal adventures Dick King-Smith, featuring a never-before-published story.
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A delightful anthology from the king of animal stories Dick King-Smith, featuring a never-before-published
story.
story.
Product details
ISBN
9780141388083
Published
2017
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children's UK; Puffin
Weight
342 gr
Height
197 mm
Width
128 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
J, 02
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
496
Author