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Dick King-Smith

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 Hodgeheg, 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 OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.

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Title:: Ace: The Very Important Pig (MP3)
Written by:: Dick King-Smith
Read by:: Nigel Lambert
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 2 hours 21 minutes
MP3 size:: 99 MB
Published:: August 01 2014
Available Date:: August 01 2014
Age Category:: Children (6+)
ISBN:: 9781486228089
Genres:: Fiction; Animals; Children's Fiction; Fantasy
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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'This winsome story is sure to warm hearts and bring smiles.'
Publishers Weekly

Meet Ace, Babe the sheep-pig's grandson, who is destined for great things too.

Farmer Tubbs takes a real shine to one particular pig, so much so that he can't bear to send him to market with the other young pigs. Soon Ace is befriended by the farmyard animals including Nanny the goat and Clarence, the cunning white cat. Together they help Ace to find his place in the farmhouse, ousting Megan, the farmer's aristocratic corgi, from her queenly seat – the best parlour chair. But Ace is not the descendant of the Sheep-Pig for nothing! Fame is waiting around the corner ...

'Ace is an intelligent, lovable, unlikely pig hero ... King-Smith's delightful animal fantasy is lightly satirical, poking fun at human pretensions in the foibles of the animal characters.'
School Library Journal

'Fresh characterisations and new plot twists prevent old concepts from growing stale.'
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