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....

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....

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

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....

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?....

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

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

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...

Stand and deliver! Young Tod Golightly is off to find fame and fortune as a highwayman, with help from his four unlikely accomplices....

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....

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

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

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....

Look up into the starry sky on the night of the full moon and you'll see...a bird? A plane? No...a little boy....