Dick King-Smith

Farmer Tubbs takes a real shine to one particular pig, so much so that he can't bear to send him to market with the other young pigs. Soon Ace is befriended by the farmyard animals including Nanny the goat and Clarence, the cunning white cat.

Together they help Ace to find his place in the farmhouse, ousting Megan, the farmer's aristocratic corgi, from her queenly seat - the best parlour chair.

But Ace is not the descendant of the Sheep-Pig for nothing! Fame is waiting around the corner...

Ambrose may seem like an ordinary rabbit, but he has the most extraordinary sense of smell. He can detect any aroma from sweets to kittens - and even niffy foxes! He lives with his family in a hutch and is visited every day by Biddy, who is desperate to take him home to be her pet - if only her mum and dad would let her. Biddy trains Ambrose to become a tracker rabbit - which comes in very handy when Ambrose's little sister, Roly, goes missing. But when Biddy's family find themselves in real danger, can Ambrose's sensitive nose save the day?

Spider Sparrow is abandoned as a baby and brought up by a kindly shepherd and his wife, surrounded by animals who love and trust him. But nothing in life comes easy.

Jack thinks his father's geese would make perfect foster parents for his ostrich eggs. But what will they make of a giant son who sinks when he should swim and runs faster than any bird on earth?

Mrs Barleylove is horrified to discover that her latest litter contains a dag - a weakling of a piglet with strangely misshapen feet. But after his miraculous escape from an early and ignominious death at the hands of the pigman, the dag assumes a unique and favoured position in the sties.

Puffin presents five classic children's stories from master storyteller Dick King-Smith. This collection features tales from the farm yard including Julius Caesar's Goat.

Julius Caesar's Goat is the story of how Julius Caesar became the owner of a goat so smelly the enemy ran away at the merest whiff of him! 

And then there's Caesar's girlfriend... Queen Cleopatra may be beautiful but she uses Siberian wolf's wee for perfume and rancid donkey milk for bathwater. How can Caesar stand to be near this pungent pair? The other stories included in this collection are The Rats of Meadowsweet Farm Cuckoo Bush Farm and Farmer Bungle Forgets.

Emily the spider seems exactly the same as all her brothers and sisters, until she races for the Spider Sports, when they discover she has ten legs instead of eight. They accuse her of being a cheat, and she is catapulted from the web. After being swallowed by a vacuum cleaner, she meets another spider, James, who befriends her.

Laura is amazed when her baby brother George starts talking to her when he's only four weeks old, particularly as he sounds like a grown-up! It's a big secret to keep from their parents and the rest of the family and leads to all sorts of comic confusion until George's first birthday - when he makes a speech to his startled family.

The animals of Godhanger Wood live in fear of the cruel gamekeeper, but the mysterious bird Skymaster sees all and soon a deadly battle of wills begins.

Harry isn't very pleased when he inherits a parrot from Great-Uncle George, but Maddison is no ordinary parrot. Not only can he talk, but you can have conversations with him and he and Harry quickly become great friends - but then Maddison is stolen... Will he and Harry ever be reunited?

Max the hedgehog lives with his family on the wrong side of the road from the park. The road is very busy but Max notices that humans manage to cross it quite easily. He decides to try to find a safe way to reach the park but his first attempt results in a bump on the head, after which his words are all mixed up when he speaks.

When Mr Sloggett discovers that his slippers are magical he wants to keep them a secret. Then something awful happens and only a hero with super powers can save the day.

This collection of exciting stories includes The Magic Carpet Slippers!

The great thing about being 75 years old is that you can wear your slippers everywhere - Percy Sloggett wears his in the garden and to the shops as well as in the house. In time his battered old slippers need to be replaced and he gets something of a surprise when he discovers that his new pair are magic. They make him feel years younger and also make him strong and clever. Percy is desperate to tell someone his secret and so tells his friend's grand-daughter, Lollie - for of course children understand magic better than adults do. Percy's slippers turn out to be life-savers as they enable him to leap across the road to save Lollie from a disaster!

The other brilliant stories included in this collection are: The Magic Carpet Slippers, Uncle Bumpo, Philibert the First and The Ghost at Codlin Castlee

On Zeta's tenth birthday she finds something that changes her life - a merman swimming in the far north of Scotland. The two become friends and a heart-warming story begins.

Wolfgang Amadeus is a mouse with a talent for singing. His beautiful voice leads him into making a very special new friend.

When his wife and children leave home, A.P.E. Spring-Russell, known as 'Ape', decides to share his huge stately house with some animals.

An amusing story of Noah's Ark.

A boy who eats sausages for every meal; a baby girl who mows the grass by eating it and a four year old at school who knows as much as the Headmaster.

She was an intruder to him at first. After all, the Roundhill is Evan's secret place - the spot he escapes to on school holidays. He doesn't want to share it with a strange girl in such old-fashioned clothes. But Alice has an intriguing way of knowing things - about him, about his house - that he has never told her. Odder still is that the more she talks about herself, the more mysterious she becomes. And how did she get through that locked door? At last Alice leads Evan to a special book and an incredible discovery - and the Roundhill was at the heart of the mystery all along.

When Saddlebottom, the piglet, runs away from home his life becomes a series of unexpected events.

When Babe, the little orphaned piglet, is won at a fair by Farmer Hogget, he is adopted by Fly, the kind-hearted sheep-dog. Babe is determined to learn everything he can from Fly. He knows he can't be a sheep-dog. But maybe, just maybe, he might be a sheep-pig.

Puffin presents seven stories, in audio for the first time, from master storyteller Dick King-Smith. This collection includes: Connie and Rolo, Warlock Watson, Bobby the Bad, Dragon Boy, What Sadie Saw, Treasure Trove and Back to Front Benjy. Get ready to go treasure hunting with Ben, cast spells with Sam and take flight with Montagu in this beautifully recorded new collection.