The WATER HORSE: Legend Of The Deep King Smith Dick

The story begins with a mysterious egg washed up on a Scottish beach the morning after a great storm. Kirstie and her brother Angus find the egg and take it home. The next day it has hatched into a tiny greeny-grey creature with a horses head warty skin four flippers and a crocodiles tail. The baby sea monster soon becomes the family pet - but the trouble is it just doesnt stop growing! About the Author Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. He wrote a great number of childrens books including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe) Harrys Mad The Hodgeheg Martins Mice The Invisible Dog The Queens Nose and The Crowstarver. At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Childrens Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made OBE for services to childrens literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.