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Sophie's Tom (#2) by Dick King-Smith
11.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Sophie
From the beloved author of Babe comes the second of six stories about Dick King-Smith's most adored (human!) character, the inimitable Sophie, re-imagined twenty years later by the witty, perceptive paintbrush of the award-winning Hannah Shaw. At last, Sophie has a farm of her very own - complete with b ...Show more
The Adventurous Snail by Dick King-Smith
12.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Snail on board! Siegfried loves to explore. One day his explorations take him on a big adventure - from his home in the grass, to the airport, on to an aeroplane and all the way to America! There he makes some very important friends, Mr Ambassador and Mr President, finds a new home in a sandwich box - a ...Show more
The Catlady by Dick King-Smith (illus John Eastwood)
14.95 NZD
15.95 (6% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Muriel lives alone with lots and lots and lots of cats. But Muriel's cats are no ordinary cats - they were once people she knew, now reincarnated in feline form! Muriel shares her house with various (deceased!) members of her family, and one rather special cat - the late Queen Victoria! An unusual tale ...Show more
The Finger-Eater by Dick King-Smith
13.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Sprinters S.
Long ago, in the cold lands of the North, there lived a troll named Ulf who had a very bad habit - he liked to eat fingers! Many, many men, women and children had found their hands a finger short thanks to the razor-sharp teeth of the Finger-eater. And who knows how many more might have suffered the sam ...Show more
The Golden Goose by Dick King-Smith
12.95 NZD
14.95 (13% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: From 7 to 99
Farmer Skint has no luck on his farm until one day his goose lays a golden egg, which hatches out into a golden gosling. From that moment on, Farmer Skint is a lucky man. As the bird gets older, her golden feathers turn to ordinary white, but the first egg she lays is a golden one.
The Golden Goose by Dick King-Smith
15.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: 8-11
Farmer Skint has no luck on his farm until one day his goose lays a golden egg, which hatches out into a golden gosling. From that moment on, Farmer Skint is a lucky man. As the bird gets older, her golden feathers turn to ordinary white, but the first egg she lays is a golden one.
The Guard Dog by Dick King-Smith
16.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
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, ea ...Show more
The Hodgeheg by Dick King-Smith
10.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Young Puffin Books | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
The hedgehog family of number 5A are a happy bunch but they cannot cross the busy road to reach the park they long to visit. No one has found a way of crossing it safely, no one, that is, until the determined young Max decides to solve the problem, becoming a hodgeheg who becomes a hero.
The Hodgeheg (young modern classics) by Dick King-Smith
12.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Max is a hedgehog who lives with his family in a nice little home, but unfortunately on the wrong side of the road from the Park, with its beautiful lily pond, and more importantly its juicy slugs, worms and snails! The busy road is a dangerous barrier but Max notices that humans seem to cross it quite ...Show more
The Rats of Meadowsweet Farm (Little Gems IA 5-8) by Dick King-Smith
20.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Little Gem
Animal Farm meets Shaun the Sheep in this darkly funny story from award-winning Dick King-Smith with full colour artwork. Life on Meadowsweet Farm has always had a balance - Farmer Green turns a blind eye to the messiness of his farm and the rats run the show, glorying in the muck and the mire. Well, on ...Show more
The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith
14.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
When Farmer Hogget wins a piglet at the local fair, Mrs Hogget thinks of fattening it up for the freezer. But the old sheepdog, Fly, takes him under her wing and starts to train him up as a sheep-pig, whose methods of getting the sheep to do what he wants are rather unconventional. The book which ins ...Show more