Daggie Dogfoot - Dick King-Smith

Daggie Dogfoot is set, as are so many of Dick King-Smith's books, on a farm. It opens as Mrs Barleylove, one of the pedigree sows, looks at her litter of eight piglets the morning after they're born. While seven of them are beautiful, the eighth is a runt: thin, scrawny, and unlikely to survive. Runt piglets, apparently, are called dags. What's even worse is that this little piglet's front feet don't look like a pig's trotters, but turn inwards like those of a dog. The other sows, whose characters resemble gossipy middle-aged ladies, discuss this problem for a while, and mention 'the servant' - this turns out to be a farm worker, also known as Pigman, ...  Read the complete review