At the zoo, Jack steals an ostrich egg that's about to be fed to a snake, brings it home to his family's farm, and persuades a pair of geese to be its foster parents.
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Dick King-Smith was the pen name of Ronald Gordon King-Smith (1922–2011). He was a prolific English writer of children’s books, best known for The Sheep Pig, or Babe: The Gallant Pig, as it was know in the United States, which won the 1984 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and was adapted as the movie Babe. He was awarded an Honorary Master of Education by the University of the West of England in 1999 and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2010.
Nigel Anthony is best known for his extensive broadcasts for BBC radio as a leading actor and for his Earphones Award–winning audio narrations. He has also appeared many times on television in series such as Casualty and Coronation Street, while on the stage he has appeared in Sick Dictators and Ghosts and has worked with Alan Ayckbourn and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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