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The Water Horse

Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 592 Ratings and 128 Reviews

Book Description
When eight-year-old Kirstie and her family go beach coming near their home in Scotland, she finds something that looks like a giant fish egg, and is just too interesting to leave on the beach. So she brings it home and sneaks it into the bathtub overnight. The next morning, she is surprised to find that the egg has hatched, but the newborn is unlike anything anyone has seen before. With a long nec... More
Book Information
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
BindingHardcover (17 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages118
ISBN-100517800268
ISBN-13978-0517800263
Publication Date09/22/1998
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About Dick King-Smith (Author) : Dick King-Smith (born 27 March 1922, March Bitton, Gloucestershire, England) is a prolific English children's author, best known for writing The Sheep-Pig, retitled in the US as Babe the Gallant Pig, ... more
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9/24/2010 Sharon Willett said: I loved that the whole family was involved with the sea monster. My seven-year-old grandson saw the front cover and wanted me to read to him. Shouldn't have been surprised at the end but was.
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