New Windmills: The Sheep-pig (New Windmills) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0435123084 ISBN 13: 9780435123086

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers

Synopsis

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this farmyard comedy won the 1984 "Guardian" Children's Fiction Award. Farmer Hoggett and his wife are surprised when their piglet is adopted by the sheepdog and gradually transformed into a sheep-pig.

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. 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, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, The Invisible Dog, The Queen's Nose and The Crowstarver. 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: Heinemann Educational Publishers
• ISBN 10: 0435123084
• ISBN 13: 9780435123086
• Binding: Hardcover