The Ghost at Codlin Castle & Other Stories: The Ghost at Codlin Castle; Baldilocks And the Six Bears; the Alien at 7B; the Adorable Snowman; the Message; Who Killed Percy Fussell? - Hardcover

King-Smith, Dick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670842524 ISBN 13: 9780670842520

Publisher: Puffin, 1992

Synopsis

In this collection of stories, there is a baby yeti longing to meet a human, a hobgoblin in search of a cure for baldness, an alien, an uncanny message in a bottle and a ghost who wants to be loved. The author also wrote "Dodos are Forever" and "The Sheep-Pig" and "Blessu and Dumpling".

About this title

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. 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, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, The Invisible Dog, The Queen's Nose and The Crowstarver. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0670842524
• ISBN 13: 9780670842520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: Harvey Amanda