Product Description

Back to Front Benjy does everything backwards and is thrown out of school for starting a backward trend amongst all the children. Then he's struck by lightning and does everything forwards. In The Hitmus-Potmus Benjamin Bean is a very rude boy until his uncle tells him the story of the terrible Hitmus-Potmus who eats rude boys. A young wizard in Brown's Bones turns his family and everyone he dislikes into animals, until he meets a young witch who gets the better of him. In Little Liar, Lionel tells lies but is cured after a disastrous tea party with his Auntie Marigold.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #941156 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-31
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

About the Author
Formerly a farmer and a teacher, Dick King-Smith is best-known for his third career as a writer. His phenomenally successful children's stories are marked by endearing humour and characters of unique depth and life. The Sheep-Pig won The Guardian Award and was transformed into the blockbusting film, Babe, which added hugely to his profile. Dick lives in Keynsham, near Bristol.

Customer Reviews

Strange children
This is a collection of four stories about odd children. The Rating for every book is 7/ 10.
1. Maggie and Bill first met each other on their way to work on the train sitting with their back to the engine. Bill proposed to Maggie as they sat backs facing the engine naturally. After about a year, Maggie gave birth to beautiful Benjamin Butterworth. Mr. and Mrs. Butterworth were extremely shocked when Benjamin started crawling - backwards! At first Maggie and Bill thought this amusing, but soon they realised that Benjy still was not crawling correctly, and when his first faltering steps were in reverse they were more than a little concerned! This story is very funny.
2. Take one rude little boy and throw in a little fear and uncertainty and you hopefully get a reformed character, or at least that's the thinking in the second story in this collection. Bartholomew is an annoying little chap who needs to mind his P`s and Q`s - the introduction of the gloriously described Uncle Runner may do just enough to make the young boy think twice about his manners. A must read story for naughty little boys - or girls - everywhere!
3. Reginald Cedric Algernon Brown was a boy wizard with a difference - he could do marvellous magical things with bones! The moral to this story is treat others the way you would like to be treated!
4. Lionel seemed incapable of telling the truth, when he went to tea at his Auntie Marigolds house he lied that he had washed his hands, he lied that he was allowed cake before sandwiches and he lied that he was allowed as much as he wanted.