Welcome to Silver Street Farm (6 page)

NICOLA DAVIES
has a degree in zoology and is the author of many nonfiction books for young readers, including
Gaia Warriors
,
Poop
, and
Just the Right Size
. The Silver Street Farm stories mark her short-fiction series debut. About the series, she says, “I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t utterly besotted with animals.” She lives in Wales.

KATHARINE McEWEN
has illustrated more than twenty-five books, including Allan Ahlberg’s
The Children Who Smelled a Rat
and Phyllis Root’s
Here Comes Tabby Cat
and
Hey, Tabby Cat!
She lives in London.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2011 by Nicola Davies
Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Katharine McEwen

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.

First U.S. electronic edition 2012

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number pending

ISBN 978-0-7636-5831-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5996-7 (electronic)

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