# The Sheep-pig by Dick King-Smith (Paperback)

_The Sheep-pig_ is one of Dick King-Smith's most famous tales. It shot to further fame when the film adaptation, Babe, was released in 1995.  
  
**'Why can't I learn to be a Sheep-Pig?'**  
  
When Babe, the little orphaned piglet, is won at a fair by Farmer Hogget, he is adopted by Fly, the kind-hearted sheep-dog. Babe is determined to learn everything he can from Fly. He knows he can't be a sheep-dog. But maybe, just maybe, he might be a sheep-pig.  
  
'An unexpectedly thrilling, funny charmer of a book' - _Guardian_  
'Dick King-Smith is a huge favourite with children' - _Observer_  
  
_\*\*\*_Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award\*\*\*  
  
Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the country 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_, _Noah's Brother_, _The Queen's Nose_, _Martin's Mice_, _Ace_, _The Cuckoo Child_ and _Harriet's Hare_ (winner of the Children's Book Award in 1995). In 2009 he was made an OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.

## Details

- **Price:** 7.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** National Geographic Books
- **Type:** Dick King-Smith
- **Tags:** All Books, Children 7+

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