Author: Baker, Nicola Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage)Published on 8 May 2025 by Simon & Schuster Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the A Whistledown Farm Adventure' series.Hardback | 320 pages, black & white illustrations throughout139 x 206 x 27 | 346g The third book in a warm and beautifully observed farm adventure series from Nicola Baker, star of Our Farm in the Dales.?Perfect for readers 8+ and fans of Jacqueline Wilson,?Michael Morpurgo, Dick King Smith and?The Snow?Foal. With stunning illustrations from?Rachael Dean throughout. It's summer at Whistledown Farm and there's plenty for Ava to do ? from helping to shear the sheep to baling the hay. But then she meets a litter of border collie pups and suddenly the sunny days get a lot more complicated . . . ?Baker is a gifted writer, and her bucolic adventure harks back to classic farm stories such as those written by Dick King Smith and Michael Morpurgo??The BooksellerAbout the author: Growing up, Nicola spent hours with her nose stuck in a book or filling notebooks with stories and sketches. After a successful career as a physiotherapist and raising two children she?s now come full circle and is writing again. Nicola lives on a smallholding with her husband and two children. When she?s not mucking out chickens or feeding the sheep you?ll find her writing adventure stories for children.
