Dick King-Smith

Introduction'Mum,' said Babe. 'H^iy can't I !earn to be a sheep-pig?'Who is Babe? And what is a sheep-pig?Babe was a little pig with no mother. He came to live on Fanner Hogget's farm. The farmer's sheepdog, Fly, loved Babe and taught him many sheepdog lessons.Babe was a clever, polite little pig...

.ow can a pig be gallant? When gallant means "polite" and "brave" and the pig is Babe, anything is possible. The animals at the Hogget farm think that a pig is a pig, a sheep is a sheep, a dog is a dog. With Babe's arrival, things begin to change. The animals aren't the only ones affected by...

Chapter 1 Has a Br^nwave H or some time now, Archibald Peregrine y Edmund Spring-Russell of Penny Royal had slept in his kitchen. It was not on account of a shortage of bedrooms. In fact there were fifteen bedrooms in Penny Royal, a huge rambling barracks of a house, given to an earlier...

Chapter 1 Most people walk down stairs, putting one foot more or less carefully in front of the other, and perhaps holding on to the banisters. Not Harry Holds worth, oh no, not he! Long hours of practice had made Harry expert in unusual methods of getting from the upper to the ground floor of...

chapter i "Guess my weight" "What's that noise?" said Mrs Hogget, sticking her comfortable round red face out of the kitchen window. "Listen, there 'tis again, did you hear it, what a racket, what a row, anybody'd think someone was being murdered, oh dearie me, whatever is it, just hsten to it,...