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The Mouse Family Robinson

  • Imprint: Puffin

  • ISBN: 9780141320625

  • Length: 96  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 6mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 96g

  • RRP: £5.99

The Mouse Family Robinson

'If only that horrible cat didn't live here!'

When Beaumont Robinson, an inquisitive young mouse, is nearly killed by the cat, his family decide there is only one thing to do. They must emigrate! And so they all set out on a midnight adventure to find a new house.

A delightful story with a truly engaging mouse hero - just right for new readers of 7+. Ben Cort's illustrations are tremendous fun.

  • Imprint: Puffin

  • ISBN: 9780141320625

  • Length: 96  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 6mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 96g

  • RRP: £5.99

Reviews

  • His animal stories never descend to fluffiness

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  • Dick King-Smith is a huge favourite with children

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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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