The Crowstarver
The Crowstarver is also known as Spider Sparrow.
When Tom the shepherd comes across a wailing little bundle in the lambing pens, it changes his life. He and his wife are childless and are delighted to adopt the baby, but soon realize that "Spider" is no ordinary child. He has a strange special gift, for he can communicate with animals.
Dick King-Smith
Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE (born 1922), better known by his pen name Dick King-Smith, 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 soldier in World War II and a farmer for 20 years before he became a teacher and author. Many of his books feature animals.
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 translated into twelve languages. He is now living in Queen Charlton, a small farming village near Bristol and contributes to this cherished landscape through his work as the vice-president of the Avon Wildlife Trust.
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