The Queen's Nose - Softcover

King-Smith, Dick

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ISBN 10: 0140318380 ISBN 13: 9780140318388

Publisher: Puffin, 1985

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Harmony's uncle sends her on a treasure trail - which ends in finding a 50p piece. But the coin is a magic one, and when you rub the queen's nose, your wishes will come true.

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About the Author:

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 Hodgeheg, 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 OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.

Synopsis:

Harmony always thought of everyone she knew or met as some sort of non-human species. Her father was a sea lion, her mother a pouter pigeon and her older sister a Siamese cat. This story tells of Harmony's wish to have a pet and how her uncle helped by giving her a very special present.

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