Dick King-Smith

The Sheep-Pig, or Babe, the Gallant Pig in the U.S., is a children's novel by Dick King-Smith, first published by Gollancz in 1983 with illustrations by Mary Rayner. Set in rural England, where King-Smith spent twenty years as a farmer, it features a lone pig on a sheep farm. It was adapted as the 1995 film Babe, …

Tom Plus used to live a modest life as the butcher's cat . . . but that was before all the humans left the island. Now Tom himself is the "mouse butcher", supplying the rich Bampton-Bush family with mice, fish, and pheasant, and enjoying the company of their beautiful Blue Persian daughter, Diana.