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, which was a great international success. King-Smith won the 1984
Guardian Children's Fiction Award, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.