Pretty Polly - Softcover

King-Smith, Dick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679853960 ISBN 13: 9780679853961

Publisher: Bullseye Books, 1994

Synopsis

When she is not allowed to have a pet parrot, Abigail teaches a barnyard hen to talk

About this title

Review:

'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)

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bullseye Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679853960
• ISBN 13: 9780679853961
• Binding: Paperback