by Dick King-Smith · Puffin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140373769
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«The Sheep-Pig» is Dick King-Smith's children's novel, published by Puffin in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Babe, a piglet newly arrived at Hogget Farm, seems destined to end up on the table. The sheepdog Fly takes him in and discovers his gift for dealing with sheep; his unconventional methods win over the flock and the farmer, who enters him in the Grand Challenge sheepdog trials.
First instalment of the Pig trilogy. The novel was adapted into the film Babe (1995), nominated for Academy Awards, and won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1984.
Recommended for early readers and children aged 5 to 8, and also for anyone wanting to discover in English the classic on which the film Babe is based.
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.
