The Crowstarver

Informationen zum Autor 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 Queen’s Nose , 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 an OBE for services to children’s literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight. Discover more about Dick King-Smith at: dickkingsmith.com Klappentext Crowstarving was the ideal job for Spider - he was on his own - yet never alone, for all around him were animals of one sort or another. Discovered as a foundling in a lambing pen, Spider Sparrow grows up surrounded by animals. Zusammenfassung Crowstarving was the ideal job for Spider - he was on his own - yet never alone, for all around him were animals of one sort or another. Discovered as a foundling in a lambing pen, Spider Sparrow grows up surrounded by animals.

Product details

• Authors: Dick King-Smith, King-Smith Dick, Dick Smith-King
• Assisted by: Peter Bailey (Illustration)
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1999
• EAN: 9780552546034
• ISBN: 978-0-552-54603-4
• No. of pages: 187
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 199 mm x 4 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / General, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 8 years