King-Smith, Dick

A poetic look at animals through the alphabet, from the anaconda to the zambra.

Fitzherbert, the rare offspring of a swan and a goose, both finds and brings happiness as the favorite pet of Queen Victoria.

Farmer Skint and his family on Woebegone Farm have fallen on hard times, but their luck changes with the arrival of a special golden goose.

Mary, her cat Lilyleaf, and her guinea pig Mr. Keylock are astounded to discover that Mary's little brother Billy can fly whenever the moon is full.

Nine-year-old Ned faces a lot of teasing when he decides to keep a Victorian doll that speaks only to him.

In 1930, on the coast of Scotland, eight-year-old Kirstie finds a large egg which hatches into an unusual sea creature, and as he grows her family must decide what to do with him.

Max becomes the hero of his family and all hedgehogdom when he discovers a safe way to cross the street.

On an island inhabited solely by cats, expert hunter, Tom Plug, hires himself out to the aristocratic, but very hungry, Bampton-Bush family as provider of food.