Best Selling Books by Dick King-Smith

With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father''s farm.

"This accessible chapter book tells the story of Charlie Muffin, a quiet man who works as a taxidermist and mouse breeder. When he tells his friend Merry that it would be impossible to breed a green mouse, she challenges him to try, implying that she''ll marry him if he can do it. Charlie tries, succeeds, and marries Merry. Together they care for the famous green mouse, Adam Muffin, and raise a daughter, Cherry Muffin. . . . This offbeat, gently humorous story flows along happily and promises to carry young readers along with it. Another appealing book from the author of "Babe: The Gallant Pig and many other animal stories." --"Booklist

Small but very determined, Sophie loves animals and is going to be a farmer when she grows up. She has herds of insects and acquires a snail, a rabbit, a cat and a dog. She also befriends a pony called Bumblebee and a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig.

Sophie, a young girl who takes a no-nonsense approach to life''s problems, pursues her dream of becoming a "lady farmer."

Mary, her cat Lilyleaf, and her guinea pig Mr. Keylock are astounded to discover that Mary''s little brother Billy can fly whenever the moon is full.

Magnus was a large mouse, a fearless mouse, a real powermouse. Fattened on patent Porker Pills. he just grows and grows - and so do his problems.

A young girl''s life with her father on their farm in England is changed when she befriends a talking hare that is really a shape-changing alien.

A beautiful story for older readers written almost twenty years ago in which bestselling author Dick King-Smith creates a fascinating picture of rural life at the time of the Second World War. Discovered as a foundling in a lambing pen, Spider Sparrow grows up surrounded by animals. From sheep and horses to wild otters and foxes, Spider loves them all, even the crows he must scare away from the newly sown wheat. Crowstarving was the idea job for Spider - he was on his own, yet never alone for all around him were animals of one sort or another. Amazingly, every animal who meets Spider implicitly trusts the young boy. This magical rapport is Spider''s unique gift, but nothing else in his tough life is so easy.

Peter is a young boy, living on a farm. One day, whilst out doing chores for his father, he comes across a strange white stick floating in the stream. He reaches out & catches it - & finds an exciting new friend in the process. Ninnyhammer is the local village simpleton, but Peter knows there''s more to him than that.

In this collection of stories you will meet a guinea-pig that can do clever tricks, the Queen''s favourite Corgi pup, a secret mouse hiding in a tree-house, a chick that wants to be a duck AND you''ll learn how to look after all kinds of pets! A delightful anthology from the master of animal adventures Dick King-Smith, featuring a never-before-published story.

Emily was like her 99 brothers and sisters, until she won all the eight-legged races at spider sports. People grew suspicious and counted her legs. She had 10 But there''s something special about Emily''s legs that will change her life for ever.

Depuis des années que Laura espère un petit frère ou une soeur. Voilà que Georges naît. Les adultes le trouvent merveilleux, elle, décevant jusqu''à ce qu''il lui réponde. Georges n''est pas un bébé ordinaire. Il est génial, il parle couramment. De ce fait découle une suite de situations drôles.

Long ago, in the cold lands of the North, there lived a troll named Ulf, who had a very bad habit - he liked to eat fingers Many many men, women and children had found their hands a finger short thanks to the razor-sharp teeth of the Finger-eater. And who knows how many more might have suffered the same fate if it hadn''t been for the actions of a resolute girl called Gudrun

A dag--a runt pig with misshapen feet--becomes, with the help of Felicity Duck and Isaak the Otter, the world''s first swimming and flying pig.