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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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International Literacy Day

Reading is so much fun, why not read The Schoolmouse. Written by Dick King-Smith, published by Puffin.

6 days ago

International Literacy Day

Reading is so much fun, why not read The Schoolmouse. Written by Dick King-Smith, published by Penguin Random House Children's UK.

6 days ago

Read a book day

The Schoolmouse is a wonderful book for your children.

8 days ago

Read a book day

The Schoolmouse is a wonderful book for your children.

8 days ago

Read a book day

Could there be a better time to read Jungle Jingles by Dick King-Smith.

8 days ago

Back to school

Lady Daisy by Dick King-Smith from ##Published## a perfect book for today.

11 days ago

Back to school

Lady Daisy by Dick King-Smith from ##Published## a perfect book for today.

11 days ago

Piano Month

A Mouse Called Wolf by Dick King-Smith from Yearling it’s a book your kids will love.

11 days ago

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