Tag: Dick King-Smith

Horse Pie

by Derelict Space Sheep on June 1, 2017 in 42 Word Retrospectives • 0 Comments

Horse Pie

by Dick King-Smith (Doubleday, 1993); audiobook read by Andrew Sachs (Bolinda, 2014)

Dick King-Smith knew his animals and knew how to write for children, crafting a gentle middle grade story of an old donkey whose morals save the day. Andrew Sachs pitches his reading nicely, bringing distinct personality to horses, donkey and humans alike.

42 Word Retrospective: The Fox Busters by Dick King-Smith

by Derelict Space Sheep on July 6, 2015 in 42 Word Retrospectives • 0 Comments

The Fox Busters

by Dick King-Smith (1978)

Endemic to an era when it was de rigueur for children’s authors themselves to be literate, this story remains a high-spirited classic: skills honed by natural selection, farmyard fowls fight to outwit then turn the tables on the foxes who hunt them.