The Ghost at Codlin Castle & Other Stories: The Ghost at Codlin Castle;Baldilocks And the Six Bears; the Alien at 7B; the Adorable Snowman; the Message; Who Killed Percy Fussell? - Couverture souple

King-Smith, Dick

 
9780140349627: The Ghost at Codlin Castle & Other Stories: The Ghost at Codlin Castle;Baldilocks And the Six Bears; the Alien at 7B; the Adorable Snowman; the Message; Who Killed Percy Fussell?

Synopsis

In this collection of stories there is a baby yeti longing to meet a human, a hobgoblin in search of a cure for baldness, a most unusual alien, an uncanny message in a bottle, a ghost who wants to be loved and some sinister garden gnomes plotting a death.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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