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* DisabilitySuperpower: Daggie Dogfoot in ''Pigs Might Fly'' has a plausible, pig-specific one; his malformed front feet resemble paws, enabling him to swim without the risk of basically cutting his own throat with sharp trotters. Later, as the title suggests, he "flies"; he is being carried back to his farm underneath a helicopter and it looks to the other animals as though he is actually flying for the machine.
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* DisabilitySuperpower: Daggie Dogfoot in ''Pigs Might Fly'' has a plausible, pig-specific one; his malformed front feet have no hooves and rather resemble paws, enabling him to swim without the risk of basically cutting his own throat with sharp trotters. swim. Later, as the title suggests, he "flies"; he "flies" (he is actually being carried back to his farm underneath a helicopter and it looks to helicopter, but by this point his legend is so great that the other animals as though suppose he is actually flying for must be towing the machine.machine).
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** Felicity the duck is either this or IntergenerationalFriendship with Daggie in ''Pigs Might Fly''.
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* PikePeril: A pike or gar nearly kills Daggie near the end of ''Pigs Might Fly''.
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* ReleasedToElsewhere: In ''Pigs Might Fly'', sickly or undersized piglets are permanently [[NeverSayDie "taken away"]] by the pigkeeper. While the sows may or may not realize that this means "killed," they nevertheless have enough brains to be astonished when Daggie comes back.
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* ThisIsMyHuman: In ''Pigs Might Fly'', the pigs assume the farm owner is their servant and call him Pigman.
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* AppetiteEqualsHealth: In ''Harry's Mad'', Harry's mother gets worried about the health of one of their parrots, Fweddy, because he has suddenly lost his appetite. Turns out, ''she'' is about to lay an egg.
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* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Madison the African Grey Parrot in ''Harry's Mad''.
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** Madison the African Grey Parrot in ''Harry'sMad''.Mad'', aided by having been 'raised' by a professor of linguistics before he was sent to America after his former master's death; Madison even manages to teach another parrot, Fweddy, to have the same language abilities as himself.
** In ''Pretty Polly'', Abigail teaches her pet hen Polly how to talk in a manner similar to a parrot, although it is noted that Polly's responses to other statements are generally random and she only rarely says something that makes complete sense, such as being taught to always respond to "What's your name?" with "Pretty Polly".
** Madison the African Grey Parrot in ''Harry's
** In ''Pretty Polly'', Abigail teaches her pet hen Polly how to talk in a manner similar to a parrot, although it is noted that Polly's responses to other statements are generally random and she only rarely says something that makes complete sense, such as being taught to always respond to "What's your name?" with "Pretty Polly".
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* RagtagBandOfMisfits: ''Find the White Horse'' features four animals coming together who are clearly isolated from their fellows; the cat was basically abandoned in the dog's home owned by his former owner's husband, one dog is a lazy individual who is nevertheless the only dog to ever be polite to the aforementioned cat, they befriend a homing pigeon who has lost her sense of direction after an accident, and subsequently find another dog who has been abandoned by her owners because they couldn't handle having a pet.
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* ToServeMan: In ''Dragon Boy'', the dragon Montague Bunsen-Burner initially affirmed that he enjoyed human flesh even if he was frustrated at having to eat knights who always came to bother him, but he and his family abandon this lifestyle after they essentially adopt John, the titular 'Dragon Boy', out of respect for everything he has done for them.
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* SinsOfOurFathers: A variation of this applies in ''The Mouse Butcher''; the giant cat Great Mog's fixation on Tom Plug, the titular Mouse Butcher, is initially based on the fact that the human butcher was the one who killed Great Mog's mother and cut off his tail when he was a kitten, despite the fact that Tom wasn't even born when Great Mog suffered his original losses.
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* ThemeNaming: Madison the parrot from ''Harry's Mad'' was so called because he was his original (American) owner's fourth parrot. "Washington died in his sleep, Adams caught pneumonia and Jefferson tangled with the cat."
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** Madison the parrot from ''Harry's Mad'' was so called because he was his original (American) owner's fourth parrot. "Washington died in his sleep, Adams caught pneumonia and Jefferson tangled with the cat.""
** In ''The Mouse Butcher'', the cat Ecclesiastes and his wife name their children after the various books of the Old Testament, the novel concluding with the news that they have named their latest four boys "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John".
** Madison the parrot from ''Harry's Mad'' was so called because he was his original (American) owner's fourth parrot. "Washington died in his sleep, Adams caught pneumonia and Jefferson tangled with the cat.
** In ''The Mouse Butcher'', the cat Ecclesiastes and his wife name their children after the various books of the Old Testament, the novel concluding with the news that they have named their latest four boys "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John".
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* AnimalTalk: In many Dick King-Smith books, animals of different species can speak to each other (but usually not to humans). ''The Sheep-Pig'' is an obvious example. ''The Foxbusters'', in which hens, foxes and rodents each speak distinct languages, is an exception.
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* AnimalTalk: In many Dick King-Smith books, animals of different species can speak to each other (but usually not to humans). ''The Sheep-Pig'' is an obvious example.example, as is "Ace", which places emphasis on the fact that the title character can understand human language and respond (although he can't actually talk to humans himself). ''The Foxbusters'', in which hens, foxes and rodents each speak distinct languages, is an exception.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Lubber in ''Find the White Horse'' is often presented as lazy, but when pushed he manages to single-handedly hold off a whole hunting-party of hounds who had been chasing his love interest Coleen after they mistook her for a fox (the narrative does note that he would have lost if the human hunters hadn't called the other dogs off, but the fact that he held his own for any length of time against the numbers implied shouldn't be overlooked).
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* CuteButCacophonic: ''The Guard Dog''
* DisabilitySuperpower: Daggie Dogfoot in ''Pigs Might Fly'' has a plausible, pig-specific one -- his malformed front feet resemble paws, enabling him to swim without the risk of basically cutting his own throat with sharp trotters. Later, as the title suggests, he "flies"; he is being carried back to his farm underneath a helicopter and it looks to the other animals as though he is actually flying for the machine.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Daggie Dogfoot in ''Pigs Might Fly'' has a plausible, pig-specific one -- his malformed front feet resemble paws, enabling him to swim without the risk of basically cutting his own throat with sharp trotters. Later, as the title suggests, he "flies"; he is being carried back to his farm underneath a helicopter and it looks to the other animals as though he is actually flying for the machine.
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** ''Magnus Powermouse'' has a lesser version of this; Magnus is permitted to consider Roland the rabbit his uncle, although his parents are both alive, as Roland expresses a fondness for children and imagines himself to have nieces and nephews from his long-absent siblings.
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* RagtagBandOfMisfits: ''Find the White Horse'' features four animals coming together who are clearly isolated from their fellows; the cat was basically abandoned in the dog's home owned by his former owner's husband, one dog is a lazy individual who is nevertheless the only dog to ever be polite to the aforementioned cat, they befriend a homing pigeon who has lost her sense of direction after an accident, and subsequently find another dog who has been abandoned by her owners because they couldn't handle having a pet.
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** ''The Cuckoo Child'', in which an ostrich is raised by a pair of geese (although for some time the ostrich was assumed by his parents to just be a strange goose, although the farm that owned them knew what had happened).
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Dick King-Smith [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever OBE]] (1922 – 2011) was a prolific English author of children's books, mostly about animals. His single most famous book is ''The Sheep-Pig'' (published in the US as ''Babe: the Gallant Pig''), which was the basis of the film ''Film/{{Babe}}''.
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* HeroicAlbino: In ''The School Mouse'', the mouse protagonist crosses paths with an albino mouse. Initially she is terrified by him, believing him to be the ghost of her dead brother, but he actually turns out to be quite nice.
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Dick King-Smith [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever OBE]] (1922 – 2011) was a prolific English author of children's books, mostly about animals. His single most famous book is ''The Sheep-Pig'' (published in the US as ''Babe: the Gallant Pig''), which was the basis of the film ''Film/{{Babe}}''.
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* ChubbyChaser: In "Fat Lawrence", Lawrence begins to cut down on his food after a friend suggests that his rotundity disadvantages him in many ways, including his love life. Midway through his diet, he runs into a stunning tortoiseshell cat called Bella -- and finds out when he tries to talk to her that she has a thing for heavy-set cats.
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* CatsAreMean: Ultimately subverted in ''Ace'', where Clarence the cat is, at worst, a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and is quick to befriend the titular pig. Also in ''Find the White Horse'', where Squintum the cat leads a group of two dogs and a pigeon to find the original home of his first canine companion (he briefly contemplated eating the pigeon as she seemed useless, but quickly came to appreciate her as a friend).
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** Ultimately subverted in ''Ace'', where Clarence the cat is, at worst, a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and is quick to befriend the titularpig. pig.
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** Ultimately subverted in ''Ace'', where Clarence the cat is, at worst, a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and is quick to befriend the titular
** Also averted in ''Find the White Horse'', where Squintum the cat leads a group of two dogs and a pigeon to find the original home of his first canine companion (he briefly contemplated eating the pigeon as she seemed useless, but quickly came to appreciate her as a friend).
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* CatsAreMean: Ultimately subverted in ''Ace'', where Clarence the cat is, at worst, a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and is quick to befriend the titular pig.
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* CatsAreMean: Ultimately subverted in ''Ace'', where Clarence the cat is, at worst, a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and is quick to befriend the titular pig. Also in ''Find the White Horse'', where Squintum the cat leads a group of two dogs and a pigeon to find the original home of his first canine companion (he briefly contemplated eating the pigeon as she seemed useless, but quickly came to appreciate her as a friend).
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* DisabilitySuperpower: Daggie Dogfoot in ''Pigs Might Fly'' has a plausible, pig-specific one -- his malformed front feet resemble paws, enabling him to swim. Later, as the title suggests, he "flies."
* DumbDodoBird: ''Dodos are Forever'' is about a family of dodos who are smart enough to see the writing on the wall and attempt to escape their impending extinction.
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"flies"; he is being carried back to his farm underneath a helicopter and it looks to the other animals as though he is actually flying for the machine.
* DumbDodoBird: ''Dodos are Forever'' is about a family of dodos who are smartenough enough- with the aid of a marooned parrot- to see the writing on the wall and attempt to escape their impending extinction.
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He also wrote a sequel to ''The Sheep-Pig'', ''Ace'', which was ''not'' the basis of the sequel to ''Babe''. ''Ace'' tells of Babe's great-grandson Ace -- so named because he has a spot on his side that resembles the Ace of Clubs -- who has the curious and unique ability to perfectly understand human language. None of the characters from the original book appear, though Babe and the Hoggetts are mentioned a few times.
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* AnimalAthleteLoophole: In ''The Sheep-Pig'', there AintNoRule that says a pig can't compete in a sheepherding dog trial!
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* AudienceMurmurs: In ''Sophie Hits Six'', Sophie gets into big trouble with her teacher when she follows her dad's advice and plays her crowd scene by shouting, "Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb!"
* CunningLikeAFox: Foxes are occasionally portrayed as cunning, with ''The Foxbusters'' as an example. But this is decidedly secondary to their main characteristic of being vile Nazi stand-ins. (Unlike many authors who write about foxes, Dick King-Smith was a farmer.)
* CunningLikeAFox: Foxes are occasionally portrayed as cunning, with ''The Foxbusters'' as an example. But this is decidedly secondary to their main characteristic of being vile Nazi stand-ins. (Unlike many authors who write about foxes, Dick King-Smith was a farmer.)
* DumbDodoBird: ''Dodos are Forever'' is about a family of dodos who are smart enough to see the writing on the wall and attempt to escape their impending extinction.
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* TomboyandGirlyGirl: The scruffy aspiring farmer protagonist of the ''Sophie'' books, compared with her pigtailed archnemesis Dawn.
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* InterspeciesAdoption: ''The Sheep-Pig'', in which a piglet is raised by a sheep-dog. ''Dragon Boy'', in which an orphaned boy is taken in by a pair of dragons, uses the trope in a more fantastic way.
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Another of his books was the basis of the film ''The Water Horse''. ''Harry's Mad'' was the basis for a live action TV series, as was ''The Queen's Nose'' (one of his few books ''not'' about animals) and ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxbusters'' ''The Foxbusters'' had [[WesternAnimation/TheFoxbusters an AnimatedAdaptation.
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* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: ''Ace'' is about a pig named Ace who has the unique natural talent of understanding everything humans say, and works out a way of communicating with farmer Ted Tubbs by grunting once for "no" and twice for "yes." He briefly ponders expanding on it by devising specific meanings for three grunts, four grunts and so on, but ultimately decides this will get too complicated for them both.
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Dick King-Smith (1922 – 2011) was a prolific English author of children's books, mostly about animals. His single most famous book is ''The Sheep-Pig'', which was the basis of the film ''Film/{{Babe}}''.
He also wrote a sequel to ''The Sheep-Pig'', ''Ace'', which was ''not'' the basis of the sequel to ''Babe''.
Another of his books was the basis of the film ''The Water Horse''. ''Harry's Mad'' was the basis for a live action TV series, as was ''The Queen's Nose'' (one of his few books ''not'' about animals) and ''TheFoxbusters'' had an AnimatedAdaptation.
!!His works provide examples of:
* AnimalJingoism: Principally between sheep and sheepdogs in ''The Sheep-Pig''.
* AnimalTalk: In many Dick King-Smith books, animals of different species can speak to each other (but usually not to humans). ''The Sheep-Pig'' is an obvious example. ''The Foxbusters'', in which hens, foxes and rodents each speak distinct languages, is an exception.
* CuteButCacophonic: ''The Guard Dog''
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Fweddy from ''Harry's Mad''.
* HaveAGayOldTime: It's certainly not his fault, but nowadays his name looks like a parody of a forum troll's handle.
* HeroicAlbino: In ''The School Mouse''
* TheHighwayman: ''The Toby Man''.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In ''Ace'' the titular pig and his owner go on "''That's The Way It Goes'', with Hester Jantzen", a parody of the real-life programme ''That's Life'' hosted by Esther Rantzen.
* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Madison the African Grey Parrot in ''Harry's Mad''.
* RecycledInSpace: ''The Fox Busters'' is ''Film/TheDambusters'' but with animals.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: In ''Smasher'', the eponymous puppy asks whether his father was like this. His mother says yes, and that Smasher is going to be just like him. However Smasher is actually really ugly and described as looking like the offspring of Literature/{{the Hound of the Baskervilles}}.
* ThemeNaming: Madison the parrot from ''Harry's Mad'' was so called because he was his original (American) owner's fourth parrot. "Washington died in his sleep, Adams caught pneumonia and Jefferson tangled with the cat."
* TheToothHurts: This plays a part in ''The Stray'', since the main character has a fear of dentists but starts developing tooth pains partway through the book.
* {{Xenofiction}}: Sometimes his work falls into this, but it depends very much on the individual setting.
* YourTomcatIsPregnant:
** Fweddy the parrot in ''Harry's Mad''.
** Tom (later renamed Tomboy) the cat from the ''Sophie'' series.
* UglyCute: Smasher is described as being incredibly ugly but the fact that the farmer finds him cute is the reason that he manages to avoid being sold and punished several times.[[invoked]]
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He also wrote a sequel to ''The Sheep-Pig'', ''Ace'', which was ''not'' the basis of the sequel to ''Babe''.
Another of his books was the basis of the film ''The Water Horse''. ''Harry's Mad'' was the basis for a live action TV series, as was ''The Queen's Nose'' (one of his few books ''not'' about animals) and ''TheFoxbusters'' had an AnimatedAdaptation.
!!His works provide examples of:
* AnimalJingoism: Principally between sheep and sheepdogs in ''The Sheep-Pig''.
* AnimalTalk: In many Dick King-Smith books, animals of different species can speak to each other (but usually not to humans). ''The Sheep-Pig'' is an obvious example. ''The Foxbusters'', in which hens, foxes and rodents each speak distinct languages, is an exception.
* CuteButCacophonic: ''The Guard Dog''
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Fweddy from ''Harry's Mad''.
* HaveAGayOldTime: It's certainly not his fault, but nowadays his name looks like a parody of a forum troll's handle.
* HeroicAlbino: In ''The School Mouse''
* TheHighwayman: ''The Toby Man''.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In ''Ace'' the titular pig and his owner go on "''That's The Way It Goes'', with Hester Jantzen", a parody of the real-life programme ''That's Life'' hosted by Esther Rantzen.
* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Madison the African Grey Parrot in ''Harry's Mad''.
* RecycledInSpace: ''The Fox Busters'' is ''Film/TheDambusters'' but with animals.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: In ''Smasher'', the eponymous puppy asks whether his father was like this. His mother says yes, and that Smasher is going to be just like him. However Smasher is actually really ugly and described as looking like the offspring of Literature/{{the Hound of the Baskervilles}}.
* ThemeNaming: Madison the parrot from ''Harry's Mad'' was so called because he was his original (American) owner's fourth parrot. "Washington died in his sleep, Adams caught pneumonia and Jefferson tangled with the cat."
* TheToothHurts: This plays a part in ''The Stray'', since the main character has a fear of dentists but starts developing tooth pains partway through the book.
* {{Xenofiction}}: Sometimes his work falls into this, but it depends very much on the individual setting.
* YourTomcatIsPregnant:
** Fweddy the parrot in ''Harry's Mad''.
** Tom (later renamed Tomboy) the cat from the ''Sophie'' series.
* UglyCute: Smasher is described as being incredibly ugly but the fact that the farmer finds him cute is the reason that he manages to avoid being sold and punished several times.[[invoked]]
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