 First edition | |
| Author | Dick King-Smith[1] |
|---|---|
| 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 United States, is a 1983 children's novel by British author Dick King-Smith, first published by Gollancz 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. 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.[4][5]
Crown published the first US edition in 1985, retaining the Rayner illustrations.[3] There have been dozens of English-language editions and translations in fifteen other languages, primarily in 1995 and later, sometimes with new illustrations.[6]
The novel was adapted as the 1995 film Babe.[7]
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