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The Magic Carpet Slippers
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
The Magic Carpet Slippers
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Dick King-Smith
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Illustrated by Ann Kronheimer
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:96 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9780141304779
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Classifications | Dewey:823.914 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Imprint |
Puffin
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Publication Date |
25 January 2001 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Percy Sloggett is astonished when his new carpet slippers make him feel strong and clever, and years younger. He can only tell Lollie, his friend's granddaughter, about them because children understand magic better than everybody else.
Author Biography
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. Later he taught at a village primary school. His first book, The Fox Busters, was published in 1978. 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, Noah's Brother, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, Ace, The Cuckoo Child and Harriet's Hare (winner of the Children's Book Award in 1995). 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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