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About 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 Queen’s Nose, Martin’s Mice, Ace, The Cuckoo Child and 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 an OBE for services to children’s literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight. Discover more about Dick King-Smith at: dickkingsmith.com

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World Voice Day

A Mouse Called Wolf by Dick King-Smith from Yearling is a great book to listen to.

13 days ago

International Moment of Laughter Day

and laugh out loud this #InternationalMomentofLaughterDay Dumpling by Dick King-Smith from Penguin Random House Children's UK

15 days ago

International Moment of Laughter Day

and laugh out loud this #InternationalMomentofLaughterDay Fat Lawrence by Dick King-Smith from Penguin Random House Children's UK

15 days ago

International Moment of Laughter Day

It's #InternationalMomentofLaughterDay so read Funny Frank by Dick King-Smith from Young Corgi

15 days ago

International Moment of Laughter Day

It's #InternationalMomentofLaughterDay so read The Adventurous Snail by Dick King-Smith from Young Corgi

15 days ago

International Moment of Laughter Day

It's #InternationalMomentofLaughterDay so read The Sheep-pig by Dick King-Smith from Puffin

15 days ago

International Moment of Laughter Day

It's #InternationalMomentofLaughterDay so read The Sheep-pig by Dick King-Smith from Penguin Random House Children's UK

15 days ago

International Moment of Laughter Day

It's #InternationalMomentofLaughterDay so read Magnus Powermouse by Dick King-Smith from Penguin Random House Children's UK

15 days ago

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