Most Popular Books by Dick King-Smith

Snail on board! Siegfried loves to explore. One day his explorations take him on a big adventure - from his home in the grass, to the airport, on to an aeroplane and all the way to America! There he makes some very important friends, Mr Ambassador and Mr President, finds a new home in a sandwich box - and also meets the lovely Peggy Sue . . . Another magical, funny story from the master of animal tales, Dick King-Smith.

When Mrs. Buzzard wants to get rid of the big, ugly dog that creates a lot of trouble, Farmer Buzzard decides on a plan to save this lovable monster from banishment.

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.

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

A wealthy old man living alone in his enormous home meets a Gypsy father and son, adopts many animals, and finally learns the true meaning of family.

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.

The fourth title in the series of books about a small, but very determined, six-year-old girl called Sophie, who loves animals. Dick King-Smith has formerly won The Guardian Children''s Fiction Award. David Parkins has previously illustrated No Problem and Tick Tock.

Dick King-Smith''s memoirs deal mainly with the 14 years he spent on Woodlands Farm. The eccentric cast of animals and humans he met provided a wealth of material for his writing, his third, and best-known career, thanks to the film Babe.

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.

Sophie a deux grands frères. Ils sont jumeaux et se ressemblent comme deux gouttes d''eau. Quand ils se lancent dans une course d''escargots, Sophie court aussitôt chercher le sien pour les rattraper. Plus tard, c''est décidé, elle sera fermière ! Elle adore les animaux, et elle en a déjà des vrais, pas comme cette peste d''Aurore...