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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 Stray (MP3)

Written by:

Dick King-Smith 

Read by:

June Whitfield 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

2 hours 3 minutes 

MP3 size:

86 MB 

Published:

May 01 2015 

Available Date:

May 01 2015 

Age Category:

Children (5+) 

ISBN:

9781486237449 

Genres:

Fiction; Adventure; Children's Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Price

Bolinda price

AUD$ 19.95

AUD$ 19.95

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'The literary equivalent of milk and cookies.'
Publishers Weekly

From the author of Babe: The Sheep-Pig, comes this touching story of a "stray" old woman's amusing antics and the large, loving family that adopts her.

Henrietta Hickthrift decided to run away from home – the Old People's Home. Packing just one small suitcase, she sets off on the train to the seaside. But Henry doesn't have much money. In fact, by the end of her first day, she has exactly one penny. That is when she meets the Goods – Angela, Barney, Eleanor, Rosie and Rowley – who decide to adopt this unusual stray. But will their parents let them keep her?

'A delightfully wholesome story.'
School Library Journal