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Product details
- ISBN 9781782268741
- Weight: 109g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 04 Nov 2021
- Publisher: Sweet Cherry Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
- Age Group: Ages 9-11
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A beautiful new edition of Dick King-Smith's Dodos Are Forever, from the renowned author of Babe The Sheep-Pig.
The year is AD 1650, and dodos Bertie and Beatrice are living peacefully on an island in the Indian Ocean. Peacefully, that is, until sailors arrive and discover that dodo tastes a lot like chicken.
With the sailors come a host of hungry rats. They like nothing more than dodo eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner – and Bertie and Beatrice are about to start a family.
Sir Francis Drake, the captain’s parrot, warns the lovebirds that if they’re not careful, their species could become extinct. But what’s a dodo to do-do?
Dick King-Smith, one of Britain’s best-loved children’s writers, was born in 1922 in Bitton, a village between Bristol and Bath where his family ran a paper mill. He was educated at Marlborough College, served in the Grenadier Guards during the war and was badly wounded in Italy in 1944. He was by then married to Myrle England, whom he’d met when they were both 14; they were drawn together by their interest in creatures great and small. They were married for 57 years, till Myrle died in 2000. They had two daughters and a son and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Dick lived all his long life close to his birthplace. He worked as a farmer for 20 years and then as a primary school teacher, before the first of his many children’s book – The Fox Busters – was published in 1978. In 1992, Dick was voted Children’s Author of the Year and in 1995 he won the Children’s Book Award for Harriet’s Hare.
He is also well-known for The Hedgehog, the Sophie books, The Queen’s Nose, which became a long-running TV series, and Harry’s Mad, also a TV series. His book The Water Horse was adapted into a successful movie in 2007.
In 1984, Dick’s story The Sheep-Pig won the Guardian Children’s Book Award. The much-loved film Babe, made a decade later, was based on this story of an appealing orphan piglet who learns to herd sheep.
Dick was awarded the OBE in 2010 and he died aged 88 in 2011.
