Publisher's Synopsis
A fifth title in the series of books about Sophie.;Small but very determined, Sophie loves animals and is going to be a lady farmer when she grows up. In her special piggy-bank, labelled "farm money", she has now collected #12.60p. But it's not enough; she needs to think of some ways of raising more funds. For Sophie, it's the start of a busy and eventful couple of months, in which she visits a farm, makes a big impression in the school concert, celebrates her seventh birthday, starts riding lessons and forms a binding business attachment!;Dick King-Smith, a former winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and voted Children's Author of the Year in 1991, is the author of five more stories about Sophie: "Sophie's Snail", "Sophie's Tom", "Sophie Hits Six", "Sophie in the Saddle" and "Sophie's Lucky". He has also written "Farmer Bungle Forgets", "H Prince", "The Whistling Piglet", "All Pigs are Beautiful", "I Love Guinea Pigs" and "The Finger-Eater".;David Parkins has illustrated "No Problem", "Tick-Tock", "Prowlpuss" (shortlisted for the 1994 Kurt Maschler Award) and the Sophie stories.
