A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of this much-loved children's classic. Harmony Parker loves animals. She thinks they much nicer than people, and imagines everyone she knows as an animal: her father is definitely a bald-headed sea lion, her mother a pouter pigeon, and her tiresome older sister a Siamese cat. But Harmony's parents won't let her have a real pet. Then Uncle Ginger arrives from India, and gives Harmony a very special present ...
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. 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