by Dick King-Smith · Puffin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140389975
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«Animal Stories» is a collection of children's stories by Dick King-Smith, published by Puffin in 1998, in paperback (121 pages, in English).
The collection brings together stories featuring farm animals, such as the pig Babe, the cat Lawrence and Ernest, the dog-cow. The volume includes two tales, «Fat Lawrence» and «Woolly», extracts from The Sheep-Pig, two stories from Hodgeheg and three tales from A Narrow Squeak.
The book Animal Stories was originally published in 1995 and is illustrated in full colour by Mike Terry. The novel The Sheep-Pig, by Dick King-Smith, was made into the film Babe.
The volume is suitable for children aged 5 to 10, especially early readers interested in animal stories.
Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE, known by his pen name Dick King-Smith, was an English writer of children's books. He is best known for The Sheep-Pig (1983), which was adapted as the movie Babe (1995) and translations have been published in fifteen languages. He was awarded an Honorary Master of Education degree by the University of the West of England in 1999 and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.
