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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:: The Guard Dog (MP3)
Written by:: Dick King-Smith
Read by:: Andrew Sachs
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 23 minutes
MP3 size:: 19 MB
Published:: June 01 2015
Available Date:: June 01 2015
Age Category:: Children (5+)
ISBN:: 9781486237524
Genres:: Fiction; Animals; Children's Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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'The Master of animal adventures.'
The Independent on Sunday

A hilarious book about a delightful puppy from the ever-popular and dearly missed Dick King-Smith.

There are six puppies in the pet shop window; five posh pedigree puppies, and a scruffy little mongrel with a grand ambition – to be a guard dog. The other pups laugh at him. How can such a small, scruffy dog possibly expect to be bought to guard a home? Especially when his bark is the most horrible, earsplitting racket they have ever heard! Will the poor little guard dog be doomed to a lonely life in the Dogs' Home – or worse ...?

'Dick King-Smith creates a complete world of humans and animals, and their complex relationships. There is humour and sadness. There is plenty of action ... An entrancing and captivating read for younger children. The prolific author has done it again ... Written a winner!'
Junior Bookshelf

'A charming, funny tale.'
The Daily Mail

'A hilarious new book for young readers by the ever-popular Dick King-Smith.'
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