Babe

The Gallant Pig

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Author:

King-Smith, Dick

ISBN:

978-0-440-40420-0

Publication Date:

Mar 1987

Publisher:

Random House Children's Books

Imprint:

Yearling

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $3.25

Book Description:

When Babe arrives at the Hogget farm, Mrs. Hogget's thought turn to sizzling bacon and juicy pork chops. It looks as if the litle pig is destined for the dinner table -- until he reveals a surprising talent for sheepherding, that is. Before long, Babe is handling Farmer Hogget's flock better than any sheepdog ever could. Babe is so good, in fact, that the farmer enters him in the Grand Challenge Sheepdog Trials. But the crowds can't believe thissheep-pigis for real. Will it take a...
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Book Details

Pages:	128
Detailed Subjects:	Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Pigs
Book Weight:	0.194 Pounds

Author Biography

King-Smith, Dick (Author)

Dick King-Smith was born on March 27, 1922 in Bitten, Gloucestershire, England. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a farmer and a schoolteacher. He served in the Grenadier Guards during World War II and attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire.

He has written over 100 children's books including The Fox Busters, The Hodgeheg, and The Sheep Pig (aka Babe-The Gallant Pig), which was adapted as the 1995 film Babe. The 1995 TV miniseries The Queen's Nose was also based in one of his books. He was voted Children's Author of the Year at the 1991 British Book Awards. He died on January 4, 2011 at the age of 88.

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