Dick King-Smith

Gertie the hen is appalled when her son Frank wants to swim with the ducks, but Jemima and her mother, the farmer's wife, make him a special outfit so that his dream can come true.

A collection of anecdotes about the author's encounters with animals beginning with his first elephant ride at the zoo and continuing through his years as a dairy farmer.

When the pigs start picking on all the other farm animals, Damaris, who is a very clever duck, and her best friend, Rory the sheepdog, find a way to exact revenge, only to find their plot backfiring.

A lonely Bactrian camel sets out in search of a friend, but after being threatened, laughed at, and insulted by other animals at the zoo and unknowingly wreaking havoc in the English countryside, he finds a real home and true friend at a safari park.

While Babe the pig is babysitting a batch of duck eggs by sitting on them, they hatch and he becomes the mother of the new ducklings, naming them, teaching them how to behave, and using them to herd his sheep.

Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe, as the piglet decides to call himself, befriends and learns about all the other creatures on the farm. He becomes special friends with one of the sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly's help, and Farmer Hoggett's intuition, Babe embarks on a career in shepherding with some surprising and spectacular results.