The Sheep-pig

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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, & 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 & filmed as Babe), Harry`s Mad, Noah`s Brother, The Queen`s Nose, Martin`s Mice, Ace, The Cuckoo Child & 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.