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

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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

Small but very determined Sophie wants to be a lady 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....

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

Abigail would love to have a pet parrot, but they're too expensive....

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

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?....

There are six of the Bone children and, when their parents are drowned on the Titanic, everyone wonders what will become of them....

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