Sophie in the saddle - Dick King-Smith

Small but very determined, six-year-old Sophie loves animals and is going to be a lady farmer when she grows up. She already has a rabbit and a cat and now she has a dog too. Strictly speaking he belongs to the whole family, but it is Sophie who names him "Puddle" - and trains him. Then Sophie has to get into training herself to learn how to swim before the family's summer holiday at the seaside. Read how she gets on in the water and on dry land, where she makes friends with a Vietnamese Pot-bellied pig and a grey pony named Bumblebee, and meets up with an old enemy!;Dick King-Smith is a former winner of "The Guardian" Children's Fiction Award and is the author of the Sophie series "Sophie's Snail", "Sophie's Tom", "Sophie hits Six" and "Sophie is Seven". His other titles for Walker include the picture books "Father Bungle forgets", "H Prince", "The Whistling Piglet", the Read and Wonder non-fiction titles "All Pigs are Beautiful", "I Love Guinea-Pigs" and "The Finger-Eater".;David Parkins has illustrated "No Problem", "Tick-Tock", "Prowlpuss" and the "Sophie" books.