The Sheep-Pig

by Dick King-Smith · first published 1983

The Sheep-Pig, or Babe, the Gallant Pig in the United States, is a 1983 children's novel by British author Dick King-Smith, first published by Gollancz with illustrations by Mary Rayner. Set in rural England, where King-Smith spent twenty years as a farmer, it features a lone pig on a sheep farm. King-Smith won the 1984 Guardian Children's Fiction Award, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. Crown published the first US edition in 1985, retaining the Rayner illustrations.

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Genre:

Children's fiction

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 2.7 / 5 (3 on Open Library)

Year page:

1983