The Golden Goose

Name: The Golden Goose
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Dick King-Smith
ISBN: 9780141316185

Dick King-Smith

06/02/2003
Puffin Books

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Golden Goose par Dick King-Smith

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur Farmer Skint has no luck on his farm until one day his goose lays a golden egg, which hatches out into a golden gosling. From that moment on, Farmer Skint is a lucky man. As the bird gets older, her golden feathers turn to ordinary white, but the first egg she lays is a golden one. Biographie de l'auteur 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 childrens books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harrys Mad, Noahs Brother, The Hodgeheg, Martins Mice, Ace, The Cuckoo Child and Harriets Hare (winner of the Childrens Book Award in 1995). At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Childrens 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.