• ISBN13: 9780141318240
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
• Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UK
• Publication Date: January 17, 2005
• Pages: 96
• Original Price: INR 499.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 78 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Animals / Ducks, Geese, etc.

Fitzherbert's mother is a goose, but his father was a swan - which makes him a swoose As Fitzherbert grows up he decisdes he wants to fly and he wants to meet his father. His search begins, but what he finds is fame and fortune of a most unexpected kind.

Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. Later he taught at a village primary school. His first book, The Fox Busters, was published in 1978. He wrote a great number of children's books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry's Mad, Noah's Brother, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, Ace, The Cuckoo Child and Harriet's Hare (winner of the Children's Book Award in 1995). At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children's Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.