M. has laid a tray for me to carry out to the terrace, where we have meals or drinks when the weather's this nice. Fresh bread, cheese, tomatoes from the greenhouse, an apple.
Read about Dick's dayWelcome to the official Dick King-Smith website where you’ll find out all sorts of things about the author of over a hundred much-loved children’s books.
M. has laid a tray for me to carry out to the terrace, where we have meals or drinks when the weather's this nice. Fresh bread, cheese, tomatoes from the greenhouse, an apple.
Read about Dick's dayIn the school summer holidays of 1976 Dick started writing a story for children. It took him three weeks to complete his first draft of The Fox Busters.
See more booksDick King-Smith was a soldier, a farmer, a family man, a primary school teacher and most memorably to his millions of fans, a best-selling children's author.
Find out moreDick and his family went to Tenby in West Wales for their summer holidays – the same town in which fellow children’s author, Roald Dahl, spent his childhood Easters.
More fun factsMany of Dick King-Smith's books have been adapted into films and TV, and he even starred in several children's TV shows.
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When I was 10, Dick King-Smith, my great grandfather, came to visit my school! It wasn’t long after we had moved from London to a tiny village on the west coast of Scotland—it was the first time Grampa Dick visited us in Ardfern, and was in fact the only time he made the long journey […]
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