Dick King-Smith

When eight-year-old Kirstie brings home a strange egg from the Scottish shore, her family never expects it to hatch....

Farmer Hoggett wins a piglet at the fair. It should fatten up nicely....

When Babe, the little orphaned piglet, is won at a fair by Farmer Hogget, he is adopted by Fly, the kind-hearted sheep-dog....

His mother was amazed when she saw the size of her newborn infant and realised that feeding him was going to cause problems....

Ever since she was four years old, Sophie has wanted to be a lady farmer....

Sophie is small but very determined. She loves animals and is going to be a lady farmer when she grows up....

Dorothea considers it a disgrace that one of her children has the white saddle-shaped patch on his bottom, and not on his back....

Harry Holdsworth had never heard of his Great-Uncle George until he inherited the old man’s most cherished possession....

Sophie already has a rabbit and a cat and a dog, but what she'd really love is a pony....

Small but very determined, Sophie loves animals and is going to be a farmer when she grows up....

Down in Blackberry Bottom lives Miss Slade, a strange – and rather dirty – old lady....

Small but very determined Sophie wants to be a lady farmer when she grows up....

Harmony Parker thought animals much nicer than people, and saw everyone she knew as some non-human species....

When people stare into Lollipop's eyes, it seems to change them for the better. But will Lollipop win over spoilt Princess Penelope?....

Flora was born on the first day of term in the new school year, which might be why she's a very special mouse indeed – a mouse who has taught herself to read!....

Flightless, helpless and often, frankly, more than a little silly, chickens are no match for the cunning, merciless foxes stalking their coop. Or are they?....

At the zoo, Jack steals an ostrich egg that's about to be fed to a snake, brings it home to his family's farm, and persuades a pair of geese to be its foster parents....

Smasher is always getting into trouble, whether it's chasing chickens, chewing up Mrs. Buzzard's slippers, or breaking all her china. Now she wants to get rid of him. Can Farmer Buzzard find a way to save him?....

Sophie is small but very determined. She loves animals and is going to be a lady farmer when she grows up....

Lubber and Squintum join forces with a pigeon and a pretty young Irish setter to search for Lubber's home....