Dick King-Smith Dick King-Smith was born and raised in Gloucestershire, England, surrounded by pet animals. After twenty years as a farmer, he turned to teaching and then to writing children's books. Dick writes mostly about animals: farmyard fantasy, as he likes to call it, often about pigs, his special favorites. He enjoys writing for children, meeting the children who read his books, and ...

Dick King-Smith worked as a farmer and a teacher before becoming a writer. He uses all the experience he gained from those jobs as a source of ideas. Unlike Terry Pratchett, our guest author in Issue 3, he is not comfortable around modern technology. He writes his stories by hand and then types them up with two fingers on an old-fashioned typewriter! You see, there is no one right way. The ...