New Releases by Dick King-Smith

Lorsque Harry vit pour la première fois Madison, il fit la grimace ! Pourquoi son oncle d''Amérique, l''oncle Georges, lui avait-il donc légué un perroquet africain, âgé de quarante ans et muet ? Harry eut la réponse à cette question quand Madison commença à l''aider à faire ses devoirs, confia à sa mère le secret de succulents gâteaux et fit faire à son père de formidables progrès aux mots croisés... Car Madison était loin d''être muet !

When a mysterious bird arrives in Godhanger Wood to protect the frightened animals from the cruel gamekeeper, this Christ-figure deliberately sacrifices himself to save them from death.

Flora, the world''s most educated mouse, saves her family during a crisis.

A community of chickens continually preyed on by hungry foxes is saved by the birth of three wonder chicks, who grow into magnificent flying machines and lead a climatic barnyard battle.

Babe the pig is befriended by the farmer''s dog, who teaches Babe how to herd sheep.

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

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.

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.

John, a young boy growing up in the day of knights and outlaws, is adopted by a dragon, Montagu Bunsen Burner. Suggested level: primary.

There are six of them in the pet shop window - five pedigree puppies and a scruffy little mongrel with a grand ambition - to be a guard dog. The others laugh at him. How can he ever hope to be bought to guard someone''s home? Dick King-Smith was named Children''s Author of the Year in 1991.

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

Ace is a very special pig. He seems to understand everything Farmer Tubbs says, and soon becomes one of the most popular members of the farmyard. He gradually makes himself at home in the farmhouse where Megan the corgi reigns supreme.

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.

A runt piglet born with deformed front feet is coached in swimming by a duck and an otter and, when the pig farm is flooded, becomes a hero.