Aw, man!

[frightened]

Damn it, Dick King-Smith's dead.

When I was a kid, I liked books and I liked animals. I was painfully shy, so I didn't like people. Dick King-Smith wrote a huge number of kids' books about animals. You see how he might've been a massive part of my childhood.

I read The Sheep-Pig and Saddlebottom and The Hodgeheg and King Max the Last and Pets for Keeps and Sophie's Tom and Martin's Mice. All or most were published by Young Puffin, I think.

I mean, he was 88. But damn it.

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[meatina]

I felt the same when I found out Joan Aitken and Tove Jansson had died :( Can't say I'd read anything by Dick King-Smith (though I remember Pob winding him up on Pob's programme).
But yeah, dammit. Kid's books these days are generally not as good as when we were kids IMO (you'd know better than me though, with your library experience). In a fight between Finn Family Moomintroll and a Hannah Montana book there is no contest. Moomins win hands (paws?) down.