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Animal Tales (Dick King-Smith)

by Dick King-Smith

Interest age: 6 to 10
Reading age: 8+

Published by Young Corgi, 2012

  • Classics
  • Funny
  • Short stories

About this book

Jackson the rabbit runs away to sea and ends up in Australia and the ancestor of millions. The 'cat lady' lives to look after cats, believing some of them are reincarnated friends, family or even royalty. Hezekiah the lonely camel decides to leave the zoo and look for some new friends in the countryside.  Will someone buy a cheerful little mongrel with a big voice - or are his days numbered?

This anthology brings together five charming and humorous animal stories from much-loved author Dick King-Smith, the author of Babe. Accompanied with characterful drawings from a variety of different illustrators, this is an ideal short story collection for young animal lovers.

About the author

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. 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, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, The Invisible Dog, The Queen's Nose and The Crowstarver. 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.

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