George Speaks (Young Puffin Books) - Softcover

King-Smith, Dick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014032397X ISBN 13: 9780140323979

Verlag: Puffin, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

George Speaks

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Reseña del editor:

A story about George, a baby who learns to speak at the unusually early age of 4 weeks. He and his sister try to keep this a secret from the rest of the family, but their parents find out and, on his first birthday, he decides to make his maiden speech to the rest of the assembled family.

Biografía del autor:

Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. He wrote a great number of children's books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry's Mad, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, The Invisible Dog, The Queen's Nose and The Crowstarver. At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children's Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.

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• Verlag: Puffin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 014032397X
• ISBN 13: 9780140323979
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96