The Golden Goose

Name: The Golden Goose
Brand: Penguin Random House Children's UK
SKU: 9780141332369
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English

By (author): Dick King-Smith

Farmer Skint has no luck on his farm until one day his goose lays a golden egg, which hatches out into a golden gosling. From that moment on, Farmer Skint is a lucky man. As the bird gets older, her golden feathers turn to ordinary white, but the first egg she lays is a golden one. See more

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Weight: 108g
Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
Publication Date: 05 Aug 2010
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Age Group: Ages 7-9
ISBN13: 9780141332369

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 Hodgeheg 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 OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.