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