Dick King-Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?....

When Ned helps his grandmother clear out her attic, he finds a very unusual Victorian doll - she speaks!....

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

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

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....

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!....

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

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

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...

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

The date is AD 1650. Dodos are leading idyllic lives on an island in the Indian Ocean, but soon there will be no dodos anywhere at all on earth....

Frank is a funny chick. Unlike all his brothers and sisters, he wants to dabble about in the lovely duck pond, splashing himself with water. Most of all, he wants to learn to swim....

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