Babe: The Gallant Pig

Dick King-Smith

Jul 2015 · Sold by Yearling

About this ebook

Fresh from his foray into Hollywood stardom, Babe gets a new cover for the Knopf Paperbacks line.
An ALA Notable Book

A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book

A Horn Book Fanfare Honor Book

An IRA/CBC Children's Choice

An NCTE Teachers' Choice  

Ratings and reviews

A simple tale about how a quiet farmer and his chatty wife come to own a runt pig, "Babe: The Gallant Pig", brims with life and humor. Babe’s kind-hearted ways make him a natural when it comes to herding sheep. Dick King-Smith writes with such authority about pastoral life and the animals that populate the book, they become as alive as the humans in the story. His characters are painted with such loving strokes that readers will be like the sheep farmer Hogget tends and wanting more "B-a-a-a-abe!"

About the author

Dick King-Smith was born and raised in Gloucestershire, England. After twenty years as a farmer, he turned to teaching and then to writing children’s books that have received critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Among his well-loved novels are Babe: The Gallant Pig, Harry’s Mad, Martin’s Mice, Ace: The Very Important Pig, The Robber Boy, The Invisible Dog, Three Terrible Trins, Harriet’s Hare, The Stray, A Mouse Called Wolf, and Mr. Ape. Mr. King-Smith passed in away in 2011, but his stories live on.