{"id":2376,"date":"2014-12-07T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2014-12-07T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T16:29:39","slug":"king-smith-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/king-smith-dick\/","title":{"rendered":"King-Smith, Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2380 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ph_king.jpg\" alt=\"Dick King-Smith\" width=\"140\" height=\"183\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2377 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bk_babegallantpig.jpg\" alt=\"Babe the Gallant Pig\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2378 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bk_chew.jpg\" alt=\"Chewing the Cud\" width=\"103\" height=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2379 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bk_lady.jpg\" alt=\"Lady Lollipop\" width=\"120\" height=\"173\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"text10\" align=\"left\">Born on March 27, 1922, Dick King-Smith was\u00a0raised in Gloucestershire, England.\u00a0One of his most-loved books is <i>Babe, the Gallant Pig<\/i>, which went on to become a major motion picture, nominated for an Academy Award. Prior to writing full-time, King-Smith was a farmer and a teacher. He lived much of his life\u00a0near Bristol and was well-known for his books about animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10\" align=\"left\">His first book was <i>The Fox Busters<\/i>. In 1984, <em>The Sheep-Pig<\/em> won the Guardian Children&#8217;s Fiction Prize.\u00a0Later\u00a0books included\u00a0<i>Titus Rules! <\/i>about a\u00a0 Pembrokeshire corgie and <i>Chewing the Cud<\/i>, a memoir which Publishers Weekly named one of the Best Children\u2019s Books for 2002. He was appointed an OBE, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10\" align=\"left\">Mr. King-Smith died on January 4, 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014\u00a0Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born on March 27, 1922, Dick King-Smith was\u00a0raised in Gloucestershire, England.\u00a0One of his most-loved books is Babe, the Gallant Pig, which went on to become a major motion picture, nominated for an Academy Award. Prior to writing full-time, King-Smith was a farmer and a teacher. 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