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Author | Dick King-Smith[1] |
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Illustrator | Mary Rayner |
Language | English |
Publisher | Gollancz |
Publication date | 12 November 1983 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
Pages | 118 pp (first edition) |
ISBN | 0575033754 |
OCLC | 59194695 |
LC Class | PZ7.K5893 Sh 1984[2] PZ7.K5893 Bab 1985[3] |
The Sheep-Pig, or Babe, the Gallant Pig in the US, is an English children's novel by Dick King-Smith, first published by Gollancz in 1983 with illustrations by Mary Rayner. Set in rural England, where King-Smith spent twenty years as a farmer, it features a lone pig on a sheep farm. It was adapted as the 1995 film Babe, which was a great international success.[4] King-Smith won the 1984 Guardian Children's Fiction Award, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.[5][6]
Crown published the first US edition in 1985, retaining the Rayner illustrations under the new title Babe, the Gallant Pig.[3] There have been dozens of English-language editions and translations in fifteen other languages, primarily in 1995 and later, sometimes with new illustrations.[7]
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