Dick King-Smith: Julius Caesar's Goat: 2 (The Dick King Smith Centenary Collection): 3 - Softcover

Dick King-Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782268715 ISBN 13: 9781782268710

Publisher: Sweet Cherry Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

A beautiful new edition of Dick King-Smith's Julius Caesar's Goat, from the renowned author of Babe The Sheep-Pig.

Great Caesar’s goat! What’s that smell? Oh wait, it’s … Julius Caesar’s goat. Butter stinks so bad that armies flee at the merest whiff of him. No one understands how Caesar can bear to be near this pungent pet, let alone cuddling up with Queen Cleopatra. She might be beautiful, but she uses Siberian wolfs’ wee for perfume and rancid donkey milk for bathwater! No one knows that Caesar lost his sense of smell as a boy. And they’re certainly not going to risk telling him that his goat and his girlfriend stink!

About this title

About the Author

<p>Dick King-Smith, one of Britain’s best-loved children’s writers, was born in 1922 in Bitton, a village between Bristol and Bath where his family ran a paper mill. He was educated at Marlborough College, served in the Grenadier Guards during the war and was badly wounded in Italy in 1944. He was by then married to Myrle England, whom he’d met when they were both 14; they were drawn together by their interest in creatures great and small. They were married for 57 years, till Myrle died in 2000. They had two daughters and a son and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.</p> <p>Dick lived all his long life close to his birthplace. He worked as a farmer for 20 years and then as a primary school teacher, before the first of his many children’s book – <em>The Fox Busters</em> – was published in 1978. In 1992, Dick was voted Children’s Author of the Year and in 1995 he won the Children’s Book Award for <em>Harriet’s Hare</em>. </p> <p>He is also well-known for <em>The Hedgehog</em>, the <em>Sophie</em> books, <em>The Queen’s Nose</em>, which became a long-running TV series, and <em>Harry’s Mad</em>, also a TV series. His book <em>The Water Horse</em> was adapted into a successful movie in 2007.</p> <p>In 1984, Dick’s story <em>The Sheep-Pig</em> won the Guardian Children’s Book Award. The much-loved film <em>Babe</em>, made a decade later, was based on this story of an appealing orphan piglet who learns to herd sheep.  </p> <p>Dick was awarded the OBE in 2010 and he died aged 88 in 2011.  </p>

Edition details

• Publisher: Sweet Cherry Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782268715
• ISBN 13: 9781782268710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96