Sophie is seven - Dick King-Smith

Small but very determined, Sophie loves animals and is going to be a lady farmer when she grows up. In her special piggy-bank, labelled "farm money", she has now collected twelve pounds and sixty pence. But it's not enough - she needs to think of some ways of raising more funds. For Sophie, it's the start of a busy and eventful couple of months, in which she visits a farm, makes a big impression in the school concert, celebrates her seventh birthday, starts riding lessons and forms a binding business attachment!;Dick King-Smith is a former winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and was voted Children's Author of the Year in 1991. Other books in the "Sophie" series include - "Sophie's Snail", "Sophie's Tom", "Sophie Hits Six", and "Sophie in the Saddle". His other titles for Walker include the picture books "Farmer Bungle Forgets", "H Prince", "The Whistling Piglet", and the 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 stories. He is also the illustrator of the "Dandy" comic-strip character "Desperate Dan".