A01=Dick King-Smith
animal books for children
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are you afraid of the dark
Author_Dick King-Smith
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Product details
- ISBN 9780141312866
- Weight: 80g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 26 Feb 2004
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publication City/Country: GB
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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.
