Book· 1983· Children's

The Sheep-Pig

by Dick King-Smith

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Babe

Film · 1995

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Chris Noonan's film adapts Dick King-Smith's novel about a piglet raised by a sheepdog who learns to herd sheep by asking them politely, and wins the sheepdog trials.

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The Sheep-Pig

Set in the Pig trilogy universe.

Babe the piglet had been won at a fair by Farmer Hogget and was surely destined for the family freezer. But Babe was determined to herd sheep. So Fly, the sheep-dog, taught him everything she knew, hoping Farmer Hogget wouldn't notice. Set in rural England, where King-Smith spent twenty years as a farmer, it features a lone pig on a sheep farm. 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.

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