Interview with a Reading Champion – Dick King Smith, author
Dick King Smith’s most famous novel, The Sheep Pig, was produced as the movie Babe in 1995. Smith was a farmer and a primary school teacher before he became a children’s novelist. Raised in a “house full of books”, Smith encourages people to try reading about things that interest them.
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