Dick King-Smith

Broschiertes Buch

The Swoose

Beschreibung

Fitzherbert's mother is a goose, but his father was a swan - which makes him a swoose! As Fitzherbert grows up he decisdes he wants to fly and he wants to meet his father. His search begins, but what he finds is fame and fortune of a most unexpected kind.

Autor

Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. He wrote a great number of children's books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry's Mad, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, The Invisible Dog, The Queen's Nose and The Crowstarver. At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children's Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House Children's UK
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 78g
• ISBN-13: 9780141318240
• ISBN-10: 0141318244
• Artikelnr.: 21648455