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The Roundhill

The Roundhill( )
Author: King-Smith, Dick
Editor: Stevens, Rebecca
ISBN:978-0-517-80048-5
Publication Date:Nov 2000
Publisher:Random House Children's Books
Imprint:Crown Books For Young Readers
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $17.99
Book Description:

From the author of  Babe: The Gallant Pigcomes a charming ghost story about a lonely boy who meets the real Alice in Wonderland--two years after she died! She was an intruder to him at first. After all, the Roundhill is Evan's secret place--the spot he escapes to on school holidays. He doesn't want to share it with a strange girl in such old-fashioned clothes. But Alice has an intriguing way of knowing things--about him, about his house--that he has never told her. Odder still is that...
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Book Details
Pages:96
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General
Juvenile Fiction / Ghost Stories
Juvenile Fiction / Places / Europe
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.72 x 8.53 x 0.53 Inches
Book Weight:0.5 Pounds
Author Biography
King-Smith, Dick (Author)
Dick King-Smith was born on March 27, 1922 in Bitten, Gloucestershire, England. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a farmer and a schoolteacher. He served in the Grenadier Guards during World War II and attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire.

He has written over 100 children's books including The Fox Busters, The Hodgeheg, and The Sheep Pig (aka Babe-The Gallant Pig), which was adapted as the 1995 film Babe. The 1995 TV miniseries The Queen's Nose was also based in one of his books. He was voted Children's Author of the Year at the 1991 British Book Awards. He died on January 4, 2011 at the age of 88.

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