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Disappointed in her efforts to adopt a parrot, Abigail Brown decides to teach one of her newly hatched chicks to speak, an effort that soon causes one rollicking scene after another on the family farm.
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'Fresh and captivating.' (Publishers Weekly)
'A typical King-Smith treat with a well-realised British farm setting, amusing dialogue, and an appealing premise developed with logic and good humour.' (Kirkus Reviews)
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'A typical King-Smith treat with a well-realised British farm setting, amusing dialogue, and an appealing premise developed with logic and good humour.' (Kirkus Reviews)
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.
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- PublisherCrown Pub
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 051758607X
- ISBN 13 9780517586075
- BindingHardcover
- IllustratorPeck Marshall H.
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Pretty Polly
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Random House Children's Books
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PRETTY POLLY
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. No Jacket. Marshall Peck (Illustrator) (illustrator). 1st American Edition, 1st Printing. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated boards/NF. DJ/None (as Issued?) Not allowed to have a pet parrot, an unquestionably admirable, imaginative, and ingenious of young heroine teaches a hen how to talk!. Seller Inventory # 004056
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