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The Jenius
The Jenius
paperback
Published:
26 February, 2004
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Description
Dick King-Smith, creator of 'Babe the Sheep-Pig', presents the cleverest guinea pig in the world!
Judy's classmates snigger when she claims guinea pigs are brainy. But, when her guinea pigs have a baby son, she decides to call him Jenius and train him to prove her point. Soon he can do all kinds of clever tricks, and Judy can't wait to show him off at school. After all, what could possibly go wrong?
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780141312866 |
| ISBN10 | 0141312866 |
| Number Of Pages | 96 |
| Item Weight | 80 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 198 x 8 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Format | paperback |
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Author's Bio
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 Hodgeheg, 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 OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.