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The Golden Goose

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Golden Goose
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dick King-Smith
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
ISBN/Barcode 9780141332369
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
Children's (6-12)

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Imprint Puffin
Publication Date 5 August 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Farmer Skint has no luck on his farm until one day his goose lays a golden egg, which hatches out into a golden gosling. From that moment on, Farmer Skint is a lucky man. As the bird gets older, her golden feathers turn to ordinary white, but the first egg she lays is a golden one.

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 Queen's Nose, 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 an OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight. Discover more about Dick King-Smith at- dickkingsmith.com Dick King-Smith is best known as the creator of Babe a.k.a. The Sheep Pig and a farmyard full of unforgettable animal characters. A Gloucestershire farmer for twenty years, he was perfectly placed to create the magical animal stories which enchant children and adults alike. THE BASICS Born- Bitton, Gloucestershire, March 27th 1922 Jobs- Wartime Soldier, Farmer, Travelling Salesman, Shoe Factory&#