A candid and very funny memoir from beloved children's book author Dick King-Smith. Before he was a children's book author, Dick King-Smith was a soldier, a farmer, a salesman, a factory worker, and a teacher. But he was always a devoted family man who loved the countryside he lived in and the ani
Chewing the Cud
β Scribed by King-Smith, Dick
- Book ID
- 108125449
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307482778
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β¦ Synopsis
An Extraordinary Life Remembered by the Author of Babe: The Gallant Pig β’ A candid and very funny memoir from beloved childrenβs book author Dick King-Smith. Before he was a childrenβs book author, Dick King-Smith was a soldier, a farmer, a salesman, a factory worker, and a teacher. But he was always a devoted family man who loved the countryside he lived in and the animals he kept. In this insightful memoir, Dick King-Smith recounts the joys and failures of his life with equal humor and candor. And he remembers a delightful cast of animal charactersβfrom Anna, the dachshund who turned out to be just stubborn, not deaf, to the 600-pound pig Monty, who liked to be scratched on top of his head, to Wilhelmina, a pet badger who was fond of love bites. As readers delight in recognizing the inspiration behind many of Dick King-Smithβs books, theyβll also see how a collection of experiences made a man a writer.
From the Hardcover edition.
Dick King-Smith recounts his life from soldier to farmer to salesman to factory worker to teacher to, finally, author.
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