Dick King-Smith’s tale of Babe - the successful sheep-pig - carries hints of an allegorical fable, but stays just the right side of entertainment to be an engaging, and to my mind interesting read for early KS2 or advanced KS1. The story is set within an idealized agricultural landscape, an essen...
Young chick Funny Frank is a chick that’s formed his own personality and characteristics. He doesn’t want to peck all day on land; he’d rather play in the water all day long. He longs to swim and be like all the other ducks in the duck pond but he doesn’t have waterproofed feathers or webbed feet...
I randomly found this book when I was hurriedly looking for a quick, fiction read at the library before a car trip. Well, this isn't fiction but it was a quick read.:-) It's the autobiography of Dick King-Smith who wrote the book that became the movie Babe, as well as many other children's books ...
Hezekiah is the only Bactrian camel in the zoo. He's lonely and he's sick and tired of only talking to himself. So one day, Hezekiah decides to escape from the zoo and go off to find some animals to be his pals. It's not as easy as he thinks! The first animals he runs into are the lions. Friendly...
In this "warm fuzzy tale full of poignance, humor, and magic" (School Library Journal), eight-year-old Harriet Butler isastonished to meet a space alien who's vacationing in her dad's wheat field! "Children will be delighted by the charm, compassion, and wit of Harriet and Wiz...and find themsel...
In 1926, a childless couple takes in an abandoned baby boy who, despite being mentally handicapped, grows to display special talents, and finds a happy niche for himself in their English countryside community.
Muriel is known as the Catlady, because she lives alone with just her many cats for company. When a new kitten is born, it soon becomes clear that it’s no ordinary cat. Vicky is a kitten with a very regal character, and strangely enough, she was born on the very day that Queen Victoria died!
Vet to see. As well as cow keeping, we began pig keeping. The poor old pig, linked always with gluttony, obesity, and squalor. As greedy as… as fat as… as dirty as… In fact, pigs are very like us. Their digestive systems are almost identical to ours, they are omnivorous as...
Mice were dying, too, in the jaws of cats or traps, or of poisoning, or simply—like Mr. Brown—of old age. But never before had a mouse been given such a funeral as Mr. Brown was. “One thing I do know,” said Bill Black as he fed his fancy mice, “and that is, I’m not just going to chuck poor old Gr...
Then he woke the pigs and said to the boar, very respectfully, “Would you be good enough to follow me, sir?” At the gate he said, “Be kind enough to put your head under here, sir, and give a heave.” And, as the sows watched, the General put his great head in the hole and gave an almighty heave. U...
He didn’t wish the simpleton any harm but he wasn’t sure he wanted him appearing on his farm. “Did he speak to you, Pete?” he asked. “Yes.” “What did he say?” “He said, ‘Hullo.’” &nbs...
It soon became obvious to her that he was constructing, on his own land, a practice course. From the top of the field where the rustlers had come, the circuit which he laid out ran all round the farm, studded with hazards to be negotiated. Some were existing gateways or gaps. Some he made, with h...
Above a long, toothless, beaked jaw, two large eyes stared into his as he struggled free of the egg. Once the baby was out, he could see that the creature had big leathery wings, stretching from its fingers to its knees, and that it had long, slender legs. “Hello!” it said. “Who are you?” asked t...