Dick King-Smith, who died on January 4 aged 88, was a farmer, primary-school teacher, television presenter, budgerigar breeder and children’s author whose books sold more than five million copies in Britain and were translated into 12 languages; his greatest success was The Sheep Pig (1984), the story of an orphaned piglet adopted by a farmer and his sheepdog, which was made into the film Babe (1995).
I absolutely adore the movie Babe and have seen it I don’t know how many times. And the bit where Farmer Hogget sings makes me cry.
“Wolves!”
“Thah’ull do, pig.”
Now I’m going to have to find more books by this lovely man. I absolutely loved “Babe!”
oh! got most of his books for school the children love them :(:(
“The Sheep Pig” is a children’s book?!!!