Sophie's Adventures

Informationen zum Autor Dick King-Smith (1922 – 2011) , a dairy farmer-turned author, is one of the world's favourite children's book authors, best known for his charming and humorous animal stories. He won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Sheep-Pig (filmed as Babe) and was named Children's Book Author of the Year in 1991. He was the author of Walker's much-loved Sophie series and A Pig Called Lollipop as well as two perenenially popular non-fiction picture books, I Love Guinea Pigs and All Pigs Are Beautiful . Hannah studied illustration at the University of Brighton and graduated in 2004. She has since created a number of critically acclaimed award-winning children’s books, including Evil Weasel , which won the Cambridgeshire Children's Picture Book Award. Her recent Stan Stinky series is the first of her own creations for older children. She also illustrated the popular Disgusting Sandwich by Gareth Edwards and The Great Hamster Massacre series by Katie Davies as well as The Fabulous Phartlehorn Affair by ML Peel. Hannah currently lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Visit her website at www.hannahshawillustrator.co.uk Klappentext Small but very determined, Sophie is everyone's favourite farmer-to-be! A bind-up of three classic stories for young readers by the beloved author of Babe. The inimitable Sophie is Dick King-Smith's most adored (human!) character, beautifully re-imagined twenty years later by the witty, perceptive paintbrush of the award-winning Hannah Shaw. Sophie loves animals of all kinds, but how will she grow up to be a farmer if she is not allowed any of her own? She goes looking for creatures to keep in her menagerie, but all she seems to find is trouble - yikes! And there is one pest she certainly doesn't want around: her prissy new neighbour, Dawn...

Product details

• Authors: Dick King-Smith, King-Smith Dick
• Assisted by: Hannah Shaw (Illustration), Shaw Hannah (Illustration)
• Publisher: Walker Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 5 to 9
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781406378955
• ISBN: 978-1-4063-7895-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Sophie Adventures; Sophie Adventures
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General, JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education, JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Horses, JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Chapter Books, JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Pets, JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Farm Animals, Animal stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories