Magnus Powermouse
by Dick King-Smith
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A baby mouse who won't stop growing is carried off by the rat catcher and begins a series of adventures.Tags
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A brilliant book for small children. About a Super-strong mouse. Definately worth reading to children. By the author of Babe.
Dick King Smith is one of those childrens authors that manges to avoid sentimentality.
Dick King Smith is one of those childrens authors that manges to avoid sentimentality.
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Dick King-Smith was born on March 27, 1922 in Bitten, Gloucestershire, England. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a farmer and a schoolteacher. He served in the Grenadier Guards during World War II and attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire. He has written over 100 children's books including The Fox Busters, The Hodgeheg, and The Sheep show more Pig (aka Babe-The Gallant Pig), which was adapted as the 1995 film Babe. The 1995 TV miniseries The Queen's Nose was also based in one of his books. He was voted Children's Author of the Year at the 1991 British Book Awards. He died on January 4, 2011 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Children's Books, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
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- PZ7 .K5893 .M — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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