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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:: All Because of Jackson (MP3)
Written by:: Dick King-Smith
Read by:: Sophie Thompson
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 27 minutes
MP3 size:: 20 MB
Published:: August 01 2014
Available Date:: August 01 2014
Age Category:: Children (5+)
ISBN:: 9781486226979
Genres:: Fiction; Adventure; Animals; Children's Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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'Larger than life characters leap from the pages of this engaging and humorous story for lower juniors.'
Junior Education

Set in 1842, this story is about the adventures of Jackson and Bunny, the first rabbits to live in Australia.

"I want to sail the seas," said Jackson. "I want to see the world ..." Jackson is a very unusual rabbit – a rabbit with a dream. He spends his days watching the tall sailing-ships coming and going. He LONGS to go to sea too. So one day – with his girlfriend, Bunny – Jackson stows away on the Atalanta and sails off in search of a new life.

'Dick King-Smith at his best: an ingenious account of the way rabbits got to Australia. Don't be deceived by its apparent simplicity: it stands reading and re-reading, and each time you chuckle at something different.'
The Independent Weekend

'King-Smith's fans will enjoy this gentle stepping-stone title and wish they could share the experience.'
School Library Journal