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The Crowstarver (A Puffin Book)

The Crowstarver (A Puffin Book)

by Dick King - Smith (Author)

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    Paperback 2017

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Synopsis

A reissue of a beautiful story for older readers in which bestselling author Dick King-Smith creates a fascinating picture of rural life at the time of the Second World War. Discovered as a foundling in a lambing pen, Spider Sparrow grows up surrounded by animals. From sheep and horses to wild otters and foxes, Spider loves them all, even the crows he must scare away from the newly sown wheat. Crowstarving was the idea job for Spider - he was on his own, yet never alone for all around him were animals of one sort or another. Amazingly, every animal who meets Spider implicitly trusts the young boy. This magical rapport is Spider's unique gift, but nothing else in his tough life is so easy.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Publisher: Puffin
Published: 06 Jul 2017
ISBN 10: 0141368721
ISBN 13: 9780141368726
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
 Book Overview: A powerful novel for older readers from master storyteller, Dick King-Smith, perfect for A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime.

Media Reviews
A powerful and heartwarming story... one of those children's books much enjoyed by adults * Times Educational Supplement *
This book demonstrates everything that is good about writing for children. It is a book of love, trust and wonder thoroughly recommended to adults and young people alike * Carousel children's book magazine *
Author Bio
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.