Gallant Pig
by Dick King-Smith
A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard and is adopted by an old sheep dog. Babe, determined to be a sheep-pig, learns that a kind word goes a long way and surprises everyone at the Grand Challenge Sheep Dog Trials.
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About Dick King-Smith
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.
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