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Best-selling children's author Dick King-Smith, whose novel The Sheep-Pig inspired the hit film Babe, has died at the age of 88, his agent said on Wednesday.
The author, who began writing in his 50s, had been in poor health and died in his sleep at his home in Bath, southwest England, his agent AP Watt said on its website.
King-Smith was born and raised in Gloucestershire, and after 20 years as a farmer turned to teaching and then to writing.
He wrote more than 100 books, many featuring animals. Popular works included The Foxbusters, The Water Horse, The Invisible Dog and Harriet's Hare.
But it was his 1983 book Sheep-Pig, made into a film in 1995, that swept him to stardom.
In 1992 he was voted Children's Author of the Year and in 1995 won the Children's Book Award.He was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2009 for his services to children's literature.

Born-27 March 1922

Bitton, Gloucestershire

Died-4 January 2011 

(aged 88)

Somerset

Occupation-Author

Nationality-British

Period-1978-2007

Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE (27 March 1922 – 4 January 2011) better known by his pen name Dick King-Smith, was a prolific English children's author, best known for writing The Sheep-Pig, retitled in the United States as Babe the Gallant Pig, on which the movie Babe was based. He was awarded an Honorary Master of Education degree by the University of the West of England in 1999 and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.

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