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King-Smith, Dick

Overview
Works: 517 works in 2,048 publications in 30 languages and 120,592 library holdings
Genres: Children's stories  Humorous stories  Fantasy fiction  Humorous fiction  High interest-low vocabulary books  Adventure stories  Fairy tales  Adventure stories, English  Ghost stories  Allegories 
Roles: Bibliographic antecedent, Creator, Other, Conceptor
Classifications: pz7.k5893, 823.914
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8 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 3,305 libraries worldwide
Farmer Skint and his family on Woebegone Farm have fallen on hard times, but their luck changes with the arrival of a special golden goose.
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134 editions published between and 2011 in 16 languages and held by 3,293 libraries worldwide
A piglet comes to Farmer Hogget's farm, where he is adopted by an old sheepdog and accomplishes amazing things.
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7 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 3,058 libraries worldwide
Muriel Ponsonby, the Catlady, lives with dozens of cats, many of whom she believes are reincarnated friends, relatives, and even royalty.
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27 editions published between and 2004 in 5 languages and held by 2,106 libraries worldwide
A farm cat who doesn't want to catch mice keeps a family of them as pets in the barn; but then he is given away to a townswoman and acquires a new perspective.
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49 editions published between and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 2,088 libraries worldwide
Harry's legacy from his great-uncle, a talking parrot, proves to be a much more exciting gift than he ever imagined.
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32 editions published between and 2009 in English and Sinhalese and held by 1,947 libraries worldwide
A runt piglet born with deformed front feet is coached in swimming by a duck and an otter and, when the pig farm is flooded, becomes a hero.
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25 editions published between and 2008 in 6 languages and held by 1,872 libraries worldwide
A quick-witted swineherd and a pig named Lollipop are royally rewarded after they reform a spoiled princess.
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16 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 1,838 libraries worldwide
Flora, the world's most educated mouse, saves her family during a crisis.
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15 editions published between and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,791 libraries worldwide
Three mice brothers, ignoring the class system separating the four clans of rodents in their farmhouse, befriend a lower class mouse and form a team to fight cats.
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24 editions published between and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 1,752 libraries worldwide
A mouse with an unusual name shares his musical gift with a widowed concert pianist.
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19 editions published between and 2008 in English and French and held by 1,724 libraries worldwide
An introduction, in brief text and illustrations, to the characteristics and habits of pigs.
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21 editions published between and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 1,717 libraries worldwide
Farmer Tubbs' amazing pig, Ace of Clubs, eventually winds up on television for his cleverness. The great-grandson of Babe: The Gallant Pig (1983, 1985), Ace understands human speech and becomes famous after he appears on a television show. Recommended.
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34 editions published between and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 1,648 libraries worldwide
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.
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14 editions published between and 1999 in English and held by 1,529 libraries worldwide
With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm.
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15 editions published between and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,484 libraries worldwide
A young girl's life with her father on their farm in England is changed when she befriends a talking hare that is really a shape-changing alien.
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15 editions published between and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,457 libraries worldwide
Gertie the hen is appalled when her son Frank wants to swim with the ducks, but Jemima and her mother, the farmer's wife, make him a special outfit so that his dream can come true.
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42 editions published between and 2010 in 7 languages and held by 1,435 libraries worldwide
A community of chickens continually preyed on by hungry foxes is saved by the birth of three wonder chicks, who grow into magnificent flying machines and lead a climactic barnyard battle.
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24 editions published between and 2004 in English and French and held by 1,289 libraries worldwide
Spider, a baby abandoned on an English farm, grows up to be mentally slower than other children but manifests a remarkable talent for communicating with animals as he comes of age during World War II.
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26 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 1,207 libraries worldwide
When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home, she meets five children and their parents who welcome her into their family.
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27 editions published between and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 1,111 libraries worldwide
Follows the humorous adventures of four-year-old Sophie as she pursues her dream of becoming a farmer.
 
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Alternative Names
King, Dick 1922-
King-Smith
King Smith, D.
King-Smith, Ronald Gordon
Smith, Dick King-.
Smith, Dick King- 1922-....
Smith, Dick King, 1922-2011
金·史密斯, 狄克
Кинг-Смит, Дик
金史密斯
ディック・キング=スミス
Languages
English (1,606)
French (122)
German (56)
Spanish (45)
Undetermined (43)
Japanese (37)
Danish (22)
Italian (19)
Dutch (19)
Russian (11)
No Linguistic content (10)
Thai (8)
Welsh (7)
Catalan (7)
Polish (6)
Chinese (6)
Swedish (6)
Persian (6)
Multiple languages (6)
Afrikaans (6)
Finnish (6)
Korean (5)
Czech (3)
Slovenian (3)
Greek, Modern (2)
(1)
Sinhalese (1)
Faroese (1)
Basque (1)
Serbian (1)
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