The Sheep-pig

Author(s): Dick King-Smith

Junior Fiction | Year 3 Set

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***


Product Information

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. Later he taught at a village primary school. His first book, The Fox Busters, was published in 1978. 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 Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, Ace, The Cuckoo Child and Harriet's Hare (winner of the Children's Book Award in 1995). 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.

General Fields

  • : 9780141370217
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.106
  • : July 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 8mm
  • : May 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Dick King-Smith
  • : Paperback
  • : en
  • : FIC
  • : 144