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The Sheep-Pig

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The Sheep-Pig is a novel by Dick King-Smith. It was first published in 1983 and adapted for the screen as the 1995 film Babe. It was retitled Babe The Gallant Pig in some markets. The book is set in rural England, probably in Gloucestershire[citation needed] where Dick King-Smith spent twenty years as a farmer. The book won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 1984.

The Sheep-Pig contains twelve short chapters, each one written in speech marks:

1. "Guess my weight"
2. "There. Is that nice?"
3. "Why can't I learn?"
4. "You'm a polite young chap"
5. "Keep yelling, young un"
6. "Good Pig"
7. "What's trials?"
8. "Oh Ma!"
9. "Was it Babe?"
10. "Get it off by heart"
11. "Today is the day"
12. "That'll do"
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