The Hodgeheg by Dick King-Smith is a much-loved classic! Now part of the collectible Puffin Modern Classics series.
Max, the hedgehog
who becomes a hodgeheg,
who becomes a hero!Max's family dreams of reaching the Park. But no one has ever found a safe way of crossing the very busy road. Young Max, who is brighter than the average hedgehog, is determined to solve the problem.
'A nicely told, darkly humorous story about how hedgehogs can avoid getting squashed on the road' - Guardian
'A huge favourite' - Observer
Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the country of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. He wrote a great number of children's books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry's Mad, Noah's Brother, The Queen's Nose, Martin's Mice, Ace, The Cuckoo Child and Harriet's Hare (winner of the Children's Book Award in 1995). In 2009 he was made an OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.
- ISBN10 0141317221
- ISBN13 9780141317229
- Publish Date 25 November 2004 (first published 23 February 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 January 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Puffin Classics
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English