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Dick King-Smith
A funny and fantastical adventure story featuring a finger-eating troll and a very determined heroine, from one of the world’s favourite children’s authors.
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The bestselling book from the author of Babe, the Gallant Pig –an American Library Association Notable Children’s Book and Junior Library Guild Selection–is now available in paperback.
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From the award-winning author of Babe: The Gallant Pig comes the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mouse. Because of his diminutive size, Wolfgang is nicknamed Wolf by his teasing brothers and…
He’s no ordinary pig! While E.B. White’s Wilbur may long endure in our hearts, … Ace may run him some pretty stiff competition .–The Horn Book, starred review. An IRA/CBC…
When Mr and Mrs Bone go down with the Titanic, their six children are left on their own. Binnie, the eldest at 17, stands her ground against well-meaning relatives and…
Six-year-old Sophie faces home and school life in her unique, stoic fashion, which will draw a smile from both the young, empathetic reader and the most wearied parent. A classic…
Farmer Buzzard’s collie has a puppy so ugly that he can’t sell him. As the ugly puppy grows, it becomes clear he’ll never make a sheepdog and he certainly isn’t…
A story which follows the demise of a colony of dodos after the arrival of man, and of one small group of birds who made their escape and set up…
A charming story about a little boy and his new pet …At the zoo, Jack steals an ostrich egg that’s about to be fed to a snake, brings it home…
Fitzherbert, the son of a goose and a swan, gets tired of being teased for being a swoose and leaves the farm, ending up in Windsor Castle, where he becomes…
Martin, a kitten, is branded a ‘wimp’ by his siblings for his friendly interest in mice. He loves caring for them and can’t understand their desire for freedom. Only when…
Farmer Skint and his family have fallen on hard times at Woebegone Farm until their goose lays a golden egg. With the birth of Joy the Golden Goose, the fortune…
The tale of a scruffy young pup whose ambition is to become a guard dog. Age group 5-8.
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From the creator of Babe, the Sheep-pig. Sir Tumbleweed is an unlikely knight - afraid of horses, jousting and dragons. But with help from Arthur the Lion and Spearhead the…
In 1930, on the coast of Scotland, eight-year-old Kirstie finds a large egg which hatches into an unusual sea creature, and as he grows her family must decide what to…
From the creator of Babe, the Sheep-Pig. Dorothea considers it a disgrace that one of her children has the white saddle-shaped patch on his bottom, and not on his back…
From the moment he’s left as a foundling in a lambing-pen on Outoverdown Farm, Spider Sparrow is surrounded by animals. Every animal who meets him trusts the young boy, and…
Abigail would love to have a pet parrot, but they’re too expensive. So she decides to teach one of her father’s chickens to talk instead. To the amazement of Abigail’s…
A battle of wills develops when Sophie wants to take in Tom, a stray cat. Sophie’s father does not like cats, but Sophie is set on adding a live pet…
From the creator of Babe, the Sheep-Pig.Damaris the Duck has had enough of the farmyard pigs with their insults and pompous behaviour. So she sends them on a voyage of…
A fresh young fiction look for Dick King-Smith’s timeless classics, Lady Lollipop and Clever Lollipop.
Captain, Ladybird and Herbert - two Shire horses and a Suffolk Punch - are not pleased when Jenny, a retired seaside donkey, arrives at the Old Horses’ Home.
While on vacation in Scotland on her tenth birthday, Zeta meets a wise, kindly old merman who teaches her not only to swim, but also many, many more fascinating things.
The chickens on Foxearth Farm have evolved into quick-witted, long-legged, high flying fox dodgers. Then, just a week after a vicious fox ambush in the water trough, three sisters are…
When Mr Gray is caught by a cat, Mrs Gray is left alone with her three babies. She remembered her old granny’s words, ‘The gravest of all mousely sins -…
When Teresa Tamworth gives birth to only one female piglet in her litter, it causes a sensation among the animals at the Rare Breeds Survival Centre. Young Triffic’s independent and…
Hezekiah is a very hairy camel. He lives a quiet life in his enclosure at the zoo and seems to be the only animal without a friend. So Hezekiah decides…
One day his explorations take him on a big adventure - from his home in the grass, to the airport, on to an aeroplane and all the way to America…
Young Tod Golightly is a highwayman, leader of a notorious band of robbers. His accomplices are a wise old donkey, a large but not very fierce mastiff, a magpie and…
Henrietta Hickathrift is 75 and bored of the old people’s home where she lives. She runs away to the seaside to start a new life, but she runs out of…
Ned brings home a valuable antique doll from his grandmother’s house, a magical talking doll that tells Ned about life in Victorian times. Ned finds that Lady Daisy is very…
Peter is a young boy, living on a farm. Ninnyhammer is so grateful that he starts to help Peter and his family with their struggling farm - making the sow…
A chicken learns that being a duck isn’t all it’s quacked up to be in this delightful young chapter book by the beloved author of Babe: The Gallant Pig.
The great thing about being 75 years old is that you can wear your slippers everywhere - Percy Sloggett wears his in the garden and to the shops as well…
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Dumpling wishes she was long and sausage-shaped like her two brothers and other dachshunds, instead of being short and stumpy. One day she goes to the woods and meets a…
Pete wants a pet mouse more than anything else in the world. Every Saturday - his mouseday - he asks his parents for one, and each time the answer is…
Originally published: Great Britain: Puffin Books, 2005.
The master of animal adventures Independent on Sunday
Two funny adventures about a spoiled princess and a very clever royal pig, from the beloved author of Babe.
Lollipop is no…
Harry isn’t very pleased when he inherits a parrot from Great-Uncle George, but Maddison is no ordinary parrot. Not only can he talk, but you can have conversations with him…
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…
The story begins with a mysterious egg washed up on a Scottish beach, the morning after a great storm. Kirstie and her brother Angus find the egg and take it…
Small, but very determined, Sophie loves animals and is going to be a farmer when she grows up. She already has herds of insects, a rabbit, and a cat. In…
Sophie already has a rabbit and a cat and a dog, but what she’d really love is a pony. Good fortune comes Sophie’s way when she’s invited to spend her…
Small but very determined, Sophie is everyone’s favourite farmer-to-be!
Down in Blackberry Bottom lives Miss Slade, a strange - and rather dirty - old lady. The village children think she’s a witch. But Patsy and Jim like her and…
Launching herself on the trial of the mysterious present her uncle brings back from India, Harmony spends her hours puzzling out the cryptic clues she finds. Imagine her disappointment then…