Dick King-Smith, an internationally popular British children’s author whose best-known book, the amusing and inspiring story of a sheep-herding pig who talks, was turned into the hit 1995 movie “Babe, ...

Midway through the movie “Babe,” Ferdinand, the panicky, wise-talking duck, reaches his breaking point. A shrewd bird, he has discerned that the Hoggetts, his owners, keep farm animals around only if ...

British children's author Dick King-Smith, whose novel The Sheep-Pig inspired the hit movie Babe, has died at the age of 88. His publisher, Random House Children's Books, said in a written statement ...

This spring, Babe is returning to cinemas to mark the 30th anniversary of its release in 1995, writes Kiera Vaclavik. The much-loved family film tells the deceptively simple but emotionally powerful ...

Chief Correspondent and Executive Editor, "Eye on America" Jim Axelrod is the chief correspondent and executive editor for CBS News' "Eye on America" franchise, part of the "CBS Evening News." He also ...

The author Dick King-Smith, beloved for bringing pigs, dogs and hares to bustling life in more than 100 books, has died at the age of 88. The writer, whose 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig about a pig who ...

There is proper etiquette on approaching a bookseller with a request to stock a self-published title. John Churchman was sure he had violated it when, in early October, he dropped in unannounced at ...

Everyone — especially children — is invited to come watch a little pig dream big in Brigham Young University’s production of “Babe, the Sheep Pig” in the Margetts Theatre Wednesday, Feb. 2, through ...

This spring, Babe is returning to cinemas to mark the 30th anniversary of its release in 1995. The much-loved family film tells the deceptively simple but emotionally powerful story of a piglet who ...

Based on Dick King-Smith’s beloved children’s book, the story of bright, polite and ambitious piglet Babe, the Sheep-Pig, is given a creaky but undeniably charming treatment in this new production ...

Colchester’s Mercury Theatre is looking to inject a little musical magic into the summer holidays with their new production of Babe: The Sheep-Pig. Arts editor Andrew Clarke spoke to director Katie ...