The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith
A story set on the west coast of Scotland, in 1930. Kirstie finds a strange object washed up on shore. It looks like a giant mermaid's purse and Kirstie takes it home and puts it in the bath. The next day it has hatched into a greeny-grey creature, with a horse's head, a warty skin and flippers.
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. He wrote a great number of children's books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry's Mad, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, The Invisible Dog, The Queen's Nose and The Crowstarver. At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children's 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670830442 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670830445 |
| Title | The Water Horse |
| Author | Dick King Smith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Year published | 1990-09-27 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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