How can a bunch of chickens fight off a hungry fox? They’re just sitting ducks – well, sitting chickens – aren’t they? But the chickens at Foxearth Farm are different. Thanks to a careless farmer and generations of fox attacks, they’ve evolved into quick-witted, high-flying fox dodgers. Then, just a week after a vicious fox ambush in the water trough, three sisters hatch: Ransome, Sims and Jefferies. They are no ordinary chicks. They know how to fight. They are the legendary Fox Busters!

A funny classic by master storyteller Dick King-Smith

Dick also wrote The Sheep-Pig and The Hodgeheg

A shorter novel ideal for newly independent readers

Full of charm, wisdom and gentle life lessons to learn

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780141370248

Publisher

Puffin

Date published

January 5th, 2017

Other details

158 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Dick King-Smith

Dick King-Smith was born and raised in Gloucestershire, surrounded by pet animals. After twenty years as a farmer, he turned to teaching and then to writing children’s books. Dick’s love of animals and farmyard life shines through in his stories. His gentle, accessible stories are ideal for young readers, blending humour and fantasy with useful lessons about life and the world.

Among his best-loved books is Babe, The Sheep Pig, which became a major film and was nominated for an Academy Award.

Dick died in January 2011, aged 88.