Dick King-Smith

Best known for his best-selling novel, Babe, which was made into a major motion picture, Dick King-Smith draws on his over 14 years of experience on Woodlands Farm to create this thoughtful and humorous memoir. His time on the farm inspired countless stories as well as the numerous lovable characters found in them. In Chewing the Cud, he candidly talks about what moved him to become a children's author.

In 1930, on the coast of Scotland, eight-year-old Kirstie finds a large egg which hatches into an unusual sea creature, and as he grows her family must decide what to do with him.

Farmer Tubbs' amazing pig, Ace of Clubs, surprises everyone by his understanding of human speech, an accomplishment that lands him a spot on national television

Babe: A shy Yorkshire piglet is adopted by an old sheep dog and discovers that he can be anything he wants to be. Babe : pig in the city: Babe and his friends head to the city to raise money to save the farm.