The Crowstarver

A reissue of a beautiful story for older readers in which bestselling author Dick King-Smith creates a fascinating picture of rural life at the time of the Second World War. Discovered as a foundling in a lambing pen, Spider Sparrow grows up surrounded by animals. From sheep and horses to wild otters and foxes, Spider loves them all, even the crows he must scare away from the newly sown wheat. Crowstarving was the idea job for Spider - he was on his own, yet never alone for all around him were animals of one sort or another. Amazingly, every animal who meets Spider implicitly trusts the young boy. This magical rapport is Spider's unique gift, but nothing else in his tough life is so easy.

Product details

• Authors: Dick King-Smith, King-Smith Dick
• Publisher: Puffin UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780141368726
• ISBN: 978-0-14-136872-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: A Puffin Book; A Puffin Book
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Interest age: from c 9 years, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Disabilities