Dick King-Smith

Dick King-Smith (born 27 March 1922, Bitton, South Gloucestershire, England) is a prolific English children's author, best known for writing The Sheep-Pig, retitled in the US as Babe the Gallant Pig, upon which the movie Babe was based. He was a farmer for 20 years before he became a teacher and author. Dick King-Smith's first book was The Fox Busters, published in 1978. He is one of the UK's most prolific authors and has written over a hundred books, which have sold over five million copies in the UK alone and been translated into twelve languages.

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