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Dick King-Smith

April 2023

  • Patricia Hodge as Aunt Augusta in the Minerva theatre’s 2016 adaptation of Travels With My Aunt.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 aunts in fiction

    So often defying the conventions of their age, these inspiring figures are also dependable boons for nephews and nieces in books by authors from Jane Austen to JK Rowling

June 2021

  • Dick King-Smith is pictured here with his grandson Tom Fisher, daughter Liz Rose and great-granddaughter Josie Rogers on his 75th birthday

    Unfinished Dick King-Smith book completed by great-granddaughter

    Ambrose Follows His Nose, found half-finished last year among the late children’s author’s papers, will be published to mark his centenary in 2022

December 2016

  • Nimble and cute but not quite ‘our’ pig … Babe with Farmer Hoggett.

    Play time
    Babe, the Sheep-Pig review – puppet porker's farmyard caper

    This Dick King-Smith adaptation is a bit unsteady on its trotters but its merriment has some of the audience bouncing in their seats

May 2015

  • SHeep Pig

    Children's books
    Dick King-Smith unseen treasures and photographs – in pictures

    The King-Smith family share pages from an early dummy of the Dick King Smith’s classic The Sheep-Pig (the book that was made into the film Babe) here for the first time, together with some gorgeous family snaps, with words by Dick’s daughter Lizzie Rose

April 2015

  • Children's books
    Just Binnie by Dick King Smith - review

  • Babe film poster

    Rewatching classic Australian films
    Babe rewatched – the smash-hit story of the little pig that could, 20 years on

February 2015

  • Rosie's magic Horse

    Children's books
    What are the best children's picture books on horses?

  • The Golden Compass

    Children's books
    The best talking animals in children's books

January 2015

  • Children's books
    The Queen's Nose by Dick King Smith - review

    chapter one: 'A down-to-earth and funny story of what a girl does to meet her desires'

February 2013

  • Textbooks were once an essential part of classroom teaching

    The book doctor
    Can children learn grammar just from reading books?

    Book doctor: 'There's plenty of evidence that the best children's books contain all the grammar young readers need. They also make learning enjoyable – unlike textbooks'

January 2011

  • Dick King-Smith

    Babe creator Dick King-Smith dies aged 88

  • dick king-smith

    Dick King-Smith obituary

September 2009

  • Diana Wynne Jones

    Books blog
    Skimming off the cream of children's fiction

    Imogen Russell Williams: From Diana Wynne Jones to Alan Garner and Dick King-Smith, the winners of the Guardian children's fiction prize have stayed with me for years

February 2008

  • The Water House

    Philip French: Based on a Dick King-Smith book, The Water Horse is a fantasy movie where a little boy discovers the egg of a Loch Ness monster

November 2001

  • How to make millions from pigs

    Dick King-Smith tells Julia Eccleshare how he found inspiration on the farm

November 1999

  • The Crowstarver

  • The Crowstarver

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