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Billy the Bird

  • Imprint: Young Corgi

  • Published: 05/09/2013

  • ISBN: 9780552567374

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 185mm x 8mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 115g

  • RRP: £4.99

Billy the Bird

Dick King-Smith

When Mary Mary finds her little brother Billy seems floating above his bed, with his nose, tummy and toes touching the ceiling, she is astounded. Never before has anyone in Mary's family been able to fly - even though their name is Bird!

An engaging tale from everybody's favourite animal author Dick King-Smith.

  • Imprint: Young Corgi

  • Published: 05/09/2013

  • ISBN: 9780552567374

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 185mm x 8mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 115g

  • RRP: £4.99

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About the Author

Dick King-Smith

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.

Dick King-Smith

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