The School Mouse

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Hyperion Books for Children, 1995 - Juvenile Fiction - 123 pages
Flora must convince everyone that reading is tremendously important -- especially after she finds a bag marked POISON!

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Contents

In Which Flora Makes a Start
1
In Which Flora Reads a Story
11
In Which Sweet William Makes a Mistake
19
Copyright

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About the author (1995)

Dick King-Smith was born on March 27, 1922 in Bitten, Gloucestershire, England. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a farmer and a schoolteacher. He served in the Grenadier Guards during World War II and attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire. He has written over 100 children's books including The Fox Busters, The Hodgeheg, and The Sheep Pig (aka Babe-The Gallant Pig), which was adapted as the 1995 film Babe. The 1995 TV miniseries The Queen's Nose was also based in one of his books. He was voted Children's Author of the Year at the 1991 British Book Awards. He died on January 4, 2011 at the age of 88.

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