Sophie in the saddle
David (illustrations) King-Smith, Dick; Parkins
Hardcover
(Walker Books, March 15, 1993)
Small but very determined, six-year-old Sophie loves animals and is going to be a lady farmer when she grows up. She already has a rabbit and a cat and now she has a dog too. Strictly speaking he belongs to the whole family, but it is Sophie who names him - "Puddle" - and trains him. Then Sophie has to get into training herself to learn how to swim before the family's summer holiday to the seaside. Read how she gets on in the water and on dry land, where she makes friends with a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig and a grey pony named Bumblebee, and meets up with an old enemy! Ideal for reading aloud or alone, Sophie in the Saddle is Dick King-Smith's fourth story about the delightful Sophie.