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  • Published: 15 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141370231
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $22.99

The Queen's Nose




The number one author for animal magic!

Harmony's uncle sends her on a treasure trail - which disappointingly ends in her finding a 50p piece. But the coin is a magic one, and when you rub the queen's nose, your wishes will come true!

From the number one author for animal magic comes this wonderful new edition of a much-loved classic.

  • Published: 15 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141370231
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Dick King-Smith

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. Later he taught at a village primary school. His first book, The Fox Busters, was published in 1978. He wrote a great number of children’s books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry’s Mad, Noah’s Brother, The Queen’s Nose, Martin’s Mice, Ace, The Cuckoo Child and Harriet’s Hare (winner of the Children’s Book Award in 1995). At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children’s Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made an OBE for services to children’s literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight. Discover more about Dick King-Smith at: dickkingsmith.com

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