"Out of the way, Titch!"Omnibombulator is a very small beetle – so small that his parents give him a really long name to make him feel important. Then, one day, Omnibombulator sets out to see the world – and discovers just how useful being really small can be.
Poppet is a little African elephant. When he is born, his mother warns him against mice because they run up elephants’ trunks. Poppet spends some time asking various creatures if they are mice and then, to his horror, one of them says ‘Yes’.
When Farmer Buzzard’s collie, Kay, has four puppies, he doesn’t know what to do. Three are fine puppies which he can sell, but the fourth is the ugliest puppy ever. No one wants to buy him and, as he grows, it becomes clear he’ll never make a sheepdog – and he certainly isn’t house-trained.
When Old Smelly the tramp mets Eric Stanley Pigeon, it’s his lucky day!Old Smelly loves to bet on the horse races, but he never has much luck – until he meets Eric Stanley Pigeon, that is. For this young bird has a very unusual talent… Old Smelly dreams of winning a fortune, but will his dreams...
Captain, Ladybird and Herbert – two Shire horses and a Suffolk Punch – are not pleased when Jenny, a retired seaside donkey, arrives at the Old Horses’ Home.
Hezekiah is a very hairy camel. He lives a quiet life in his enclosure at the zoo and seems to be the only animal without a friend. So Hezekiah decides to escape from the zoo and go on the run – crashing through hedges, hiding in toilets and breaking into a safari park! There he meets another hairy...
"I’ve got a chicken that wants to be a duck!"Frank is a funny chick. Unlike all his brothers and sisters, he doesn’t want to peck around at anything and everything in the dust. No, Frank wants to dabble about in the lovely duckpond, splashing himself with water. Most of all, he wants to learn to...
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. He wrote a great number of children’s books, including The Sheep-Pig...
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A delightful anthology from the master of animal adventures Dick King-Smith, featuring a never-before-published story.In this collection of stories you will meet a guinea-pig that can do clever tricks, the Queen’s favourite Corgi pup, a secret mouse hiding in a tree-house, a chick that wants to be...
Crowstarving was the ideal job for Spider – he was on his own – yet never alone, for all around him were animals of one sort or another. Discovered as a foundling in a lambing pen, Spider Sparrow grows up surrounded by animals.
Laurence Higgins is an enormously fat black cat. His friends tell him to lose weight if he wants a girl friend. He gets thinner with one meal a day but the cat he fancies tells him she doesn’t like slim boys. Triumphantly Lawrence returns to his four meals a day, spurred on by the thought of...
Judy’s classmates snigger when she claims guinea pigs are brainy. But, when her guinea pigs have a baby son, she decides to call him Jenius and train him to prove her point. Soon he can do all kinds of clever tricks, and Judy can’t wait to show him off at school. After all, what could possibly go...
All Because of Jackson – Jackson is a very unusual rabbit – one who dreams of going to sea. But Muriel’s cats are no ordinary cats – they are people she once knew reincarnated in feline form!The Guard Dog – The story of a scruffy little mongrel with a grand ambition – to be a guard dog.
Fitzherbert’s mother is a goose, but his father was a swan – which makes him a swoose! As Fitzherbert grows up he decisdes he wants to fly and he wants to meet his father. His search begins, but what he finds is fame and fortune of a most unexpected kind.
When Ned helps his grandmother clear out her attic, he finds an unusual Victorian doll – she speaks! Ned and Lady Daisy soon become fast friends, even though he’s teased at school for owning a doll. Ned learns to stand up to his father and the school bully in order to protect Lady Daisy. But then...
When Mr and Mrs Bone go down with the Titanic, their six children are left on their own. Binnie, the eldest at 17, stands her ground against well-meaning relatives and says she will bring up the family.
Laura is amazed when her baby brother George starts talking to her when he’s only four weeks old, particularly as he sounds like a grown-up! It’s a big secret to keep from their parents and the rest of the family and leads to all sorts of comic confusion until George’s first birthday – when he...
