Dick King-Smith

A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.

A farm cat who doesn't want to catch mice keeps a family of them as pets in the barn; but then he is given away to a townswoman and acquires a new perspective.

Henrietta Hickathrift is tired of living in an old age home. The people are boring, the food is dull, and there's nothing fun to do. So, on the morning of her seventy-fifth birthday, Henny decides to run away. With only L50 in her purse and all her belongings in a single suitcase, she takes a train to the seaside to begin a new life. That's where she meets the five children of the Good family who insist on taking her home for a proper birthday...

A runt piglet born with deformed front feet is coached in swimming by a duck and an otter and, when the pig farm is flooded, becomes a hero.

Three mice brothers, ignoring the class system separating the four clans of rodents in their farmhouse, befriend a lower class mouse and form a team to fight cats.

After many unsuccessful attempts, lonely mouse farmer Charlie Muffin finally breeds a green mouse, finds true love, and wins the Best of Show at the Grand Mouse Championship Show.

When Archibald Peregrine Edmond Spring-Russell (Ape, for short) finds himself living alone for the first time in his life, he's finally free to do exactly what he pleases. What pleases this wealthy old English gentleman? Eggs. So Ape buys twelve brown hens to keep in his living room. But he doesn't stop there. Soon there are rabbits and guinea pigs in the dingy room, canaries in the music room, a noisy parrot in the kitchen and a puppy who seems...

Lollipop is no ordinary pig. According to her young trainer, Johnny Skinner -- who also happens to specialize in good human behavior -- she's the smartest pig in the entire kingdom. When people stare into Lollipop's bright, intelligent eyes, it somehow changes them for the better. But can Lollipop win over the spoiled Princess Penelope -- and her not-so-pig-friendly parents, the King and Queen?

In 1930, on the coast of Scotland, eight-year-old Kirstie finds a large egg which hatches into an unusual sea creature, and as he grows her family must decide what to do with him.

A young girl's life with her father on their farm in England is changed when she befriends a talking hare that is really a shape-changing alien.