Small but very determined, Sophie loves animals and is going to be a lady farmer when she grows up. She's already got a rabbit and a cat and a dog. What she'd really love now is a pony, but she doesn't think she ever will be that lucky. Good fortune does come her way, though, when she's invited to spend her summer holiday in Scotland with her best friend, Great Aunt Al! A former winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and voted Children's Author of the Year in 1991, Dick King-Smith is the author of five more stories about Sophie: "Sophie's Snail", "Sophie's Tom", "Sophie Hits Six", "Sophie in the Saddle!" and "Sophie is Seven". His other titles include "Farmer Bungle Forgets", "H Prince". "The Whistling Piglet", "All Pigs are Beautiful", "I Love Guinea Pigs" and "The Finger-Eater". David Parkins has illustrated "No Problem", "Tick Tock", "Prowlpuss" (shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award) and the Sophie stories.