The queen's nose - Hardcover

King-Smith, Dick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060232455 ISBN 13: 9780060232450

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1983

Synopsis

Ten-year-old Harmony, who loves animals but isn't allowed to keep a pet, is given a magic coin with seven wishes.

About this title

About the Author:

Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. Later he taught at a village primary school. His first book, The Fox Busters, was published in 1978. He wrote a great number of children's books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry's Mad, Noah's Brother, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, Ace, The Cuckoo Child and Harriet's Hare (winner of the Children's Book Award in 1995). At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children's Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0060232455
• ISBN 13: 9780060232450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 111