![]() ![]() 'It was the place that inspired him - he acknowledged it in his memoir Chewing the Cud. It was my father’s first farm, I lived there from the age of two until I was 16. They are proposing to buy up the rest of the field. 'Part of the farm has already been built on. He was awarded the OBE a year ago for services to children's literature.ĭick King-Smith passed away in his sleep in 2011 at the age of 88, after several years of poor health. They behave as animals should behave, with the exception that they open their mouths and speak the Queen's English.' He said of his work: 'Much as I love The Wind In The Willows and the works of Beatrix Potter, I never dress my animals in clothes. King-Smith wrote dozens more books and sold more than five million copies in the UK, becoming known worldwide with the 1995 release of Babe. The Fox Busters, the tale of chickens that take their revenge on foxes, was published in 1978. He was in his 50s when he wrote his first children's book after his pupils enjoyed his stories about animals. ![]() ![]() King-Smith's inspiration for the tale was drawn from the 20 years he spent as a farmer in Gloucestershire, before he was forced to quit and retrained as a primary school teacher. Dick King-Smith's 1984 novel The Sheep-Pig, the story of an orphaned pig that is raised by sheepdogs and learns to herd animals, went on to be made into Hollywood film Babe. ![]()
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