Dick King Smith Collection 2 Books Set (The Fox Busters and Martin's Mice)

This two-book collection brings together The Fox Busters and Martin's Mice by Dick King-Smith. Both stories focus on animals whose behaviour goes against expectation, with events unfolding across a farm setting and a family home.

In The Fox Busters, life at Foxearth Farm is shaped by foxes that stalk the chicken coop. Influenced by a careless farmer and generations of persistent predators, the chickens become quick-witted, long-legged and capable of high flight. After an ambush at the water trough, three sisters hatch and grow up determined to fight back.

Included titles

• The Fox Busters
• Martin's Mice

Key details

• Two-book set by Dick King-Smith
• Includes The Fox Busters and Martin's Mice
• The Fox Busters is set on Foxearth Farm
• Martin's Mice follows a kitten who keeps a mouse as a pet

Synopses

The Fox Busters

On Foxearth Farm, the chickens seem outmatched by the foxes that prowl around their coop. Over time, and through the influence of a careless farmer and generations of foxes, they develop into agile fox dodgers: quick-thinking, long-legged and able to fly high. After a vicious attack at the water trough, three sisters are hatched and grow up resolved to take on the threat as the Fox Busters.

Martin's Mice

Martin is a kitten who does not enjoy catching mice, or eating them. When he catches one by accident, he decides to keep it as a pet, and Drusilla the mouse makes a home in an old bath tub in the attic. As Martin collects food, water and bedding, Drusilla’s babies begin to arrive, and he is left wondering how he will manage with so many mice.