Harriet's Hare
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Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.
Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this special 30th anniversary edition of Harriet's Hare.
Hares don't talk. Everyone knows that. But the hare Harriet meets in a corn circle on Longhanger Farm is a very unusual hare.
'He's a wizard, that's what he is. 'Wiz,' she said.'
Wiz is a Partian, native to the distant planet Pars, and not only can he talk, he can speak any language, change into any shape, and even dance! Harriet and Wiz spend the summer galloping around the Farm together, but as his holiday on Earth comes to an end . . .
Will Wiz want to go home?
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.