Sophie in the Saddle! (The Sophie stories)

by King-Smith Dick (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.45

  Small but very determined, six-year-old Sophie loves animals and is going to be a lady farmer when she grows up. She already has a rabbit and a cat and now she has a dog too. Strictly speaking he belongs to the whole family, but it is Sophie who names him Puddle - and trains him. Then Sophie has to get into training herself to learn how to swim before the family's summer holiday at the seaside. Read how she gets on in the water and on dry land, where she makes friends with a Vietnamese Pot-bellied pig and a grey pony named Bumblebee, and meets up with an old enemy!;Dick King-Smith is a former winner of The Guardian Children's Fiction Award and is the author of the Sophie series Sophie's Snail , Sophie's Tom , Sophie hits Six and Sophie is Seven . His other titles for Walker include the picture books Father Bungle forgets , H Prince , The Whistling Piglet , the Read and Wonder non-fiction titles All Pigs are Beautiful , I Love Guinea-Pigs and The Finger-Eater .;David Parkins has illustrated No Problem , Tick-Tock , Prowlpuss and the Sophie books.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.45

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.45

  This is the fourth title in the series of books about a small, but very determined, six-year-old girl called Sophie, who loves animals and is going to be a lady farmer when she grows up. She already has a rabbit, a cat and a dog called Puddle, that Sophie has to train. With the forthcoming family holiday to the seaside, it is Sophie who has to get into training herself, to learn how to swim. Once on holiday we see how Sophie gets on in the water and on dry land, where she makes friends with a Vietnamese Pot-bellied pig and a grey pony called Bumblebee, and meets up with an old enemy. Dick King-Smith is the former winner of The Guardian Children's Fiction Award. The three other Sophie books are Sophie's Snail , Sophie's Tom and Sophie Hits Six . His other titles include Farmer Bungle Forgets , H Prince , The Whistling Piglet , All Pigs are Beautiful and The Finger Eater . David Parkins has previously illustrated No Problem , Tick Tock , Sophie's Tom and Sophie Hits Six . He is also the illustrator of the Billy Whizz comic strip for The Beano .