Dick King-Smith

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

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

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

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

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?....

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

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

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

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

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

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....

All pterodactyls know that flying dinosaurs are superior, and all apatosauruses know that any dinosaur with only two legs is surely second-class....

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

Ace is befriended by the farmyard animals. Together they help Ace to find his place in the farmhouse. But Ace is not the descendent of the Sheep-Pig for nothing! fame is waiting around the corner....

Captain, Ladybird and Herbert – two Shire horses and a Suffolk Punch – are not pleased when Jenny, a retired seaside donkey, arrives at the Old Horses' Home....

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

Brought to you by Puffin. An exciting new publication in celebration of the centenary of his birth, a recently discovered funny and poignant animal story by Dick King-Smith, completed by his great granddaughter, Josie Rogers. Ambrose may seem like an ordinary rabbit but he has the most...

Fitzherbert, the son of a goose and a swan....

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