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The Adventurous Snail

  • Imprint: Young Corgi

  • ISBN: 9780552567411

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 185mm x 8mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 115g

  • RRP: £5.99

The Adventurous Snail

Snail on board!

Siegfried loves to explore. One day his explorations take him on a big adventure - from his home in the grass, to the airport, on to an aeroplane and all the way to America!

There he makes some very important friends, Mr Ambassador and Mr President, finds a new home in a sandwich box - and also meets the lovely Peggy Sue . . .

Another magical, funny story from the master of animal tales, Dick King-Smith.

  • Imprint: Young Corgi

  • ISBN: 9780552567411

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 185mm x 8mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 115g

  • RRP: £5.99

Reviews

  • The master of animal adventures

    Independent on Sunday

  • The king of animal stories, King-Smith uses his language skills to the full to engage readers.

    Birmingham Post

  • Dick King-Smith writes wittily, knowledgeably and lovingly about animals.

    Bournemouth Daily Echo

  • Highly readable

    Tower Hamlets Recorder

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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. 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

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