Chewing the Cud: An Extraordinary Life Remembered by the Author of Babe: The Gallant Pig

An Extraordinary Life Remembered by the Author of Babe: The Gallant Pig A candid and very funny memoir from beloved childrens book author Dick King-Smith. Before he was a childrens book author, Dick King-Smith was a soldier, a farmer, a salesman, a factory worker, and a teacher. But he was always a devoted family man who loved the countryside he lived in and the animals he kept. In this insightful memoir, Dick King-Smith recounts the joys and failures of his life with equal humor and candor. And he remembers a delightful cast of animal charactersfrom Anna, the dachshund who turned out to be just stubborn, not deaf, to the 600-pound pig Monty, who liked to be scratched on top of his head, to Wilhelmina, a pet badger who was fond of love bites. As readers delight in recognizing the inspiration behind many of Dick King-Smiths books, theyll also see how a collection of experiences made a man a writer. *From the Hardcover edition.* Dick King-Smith recounts his life from soldier to farmer to salesman to factory worker to teacher to, finally, author. Describes how and where cave bears lived, possible reasons for their extinction, and what kind of relationship might have existed between these huge creatures and prehistoric man