Sophie's Lucky (The Sophie Stories) - Hardcover

King-Smith, Dick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0744541182 ISBN 13: 9780744541182

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Small but very determined, Sophie loves animals and is going to be a lady farmer when she grows up. She's already got a rabbit and a cat and a dog. What she'd really love now is a pony, but she doesn't think she ever will be that lucky. Good fortune does come her way, though, when she's invited to spend her summer holiday in Scotland with her best friend, Great Aunt Al! A former winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and voted Children's Author of the Year in 1991, Dick King-Smith is the author of five more stories about Sophie: "Sophie's Snail", "Sophie's Tom", "Sophie Hits Six", "Sophie in the Saddle!" and "Sophie is Seven". His other titles include "Farmer Bungle Forgets", "H Prince". "The Whistling Piglet", "All Pigs are Beautiful", "I Love Guinea Pigs" and "The Finger-Eater". David Parkins has illustrated "No Problem", "Tick Tock", "Prowlpuss" (shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award) and the Sophie stories.

About this title

Review:

'Enjoyable reading; Sophie is well on her way to living happily ever after.' (Kirkus Reviews)

'King-Smith has drawn a delightful portrait of a youngster with a determined and direct manner and a warm heart.' (School Library Journal)

From the Publisher:

Reviews!
"The doughty little heroine is a wonderful creation, and David Parkins' illustrations capture her, and the rest of her family, beautifully." - BOOKS FOR KEEPS "Humorous and touching...Parkins' intense cross-hatched line drawings are classics." - THE GUARDIAN "A resourceful, likeable child...Her efforts to overcome obstacles in the way of her ambitions produce many amusing incidents." - JUNIOR EDUCATION

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0744541182
• ISBN 13: 9780744541182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 108
• Illustrator: Parkins David