Freckles and Friends: true stories of garden wildlife

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Freckles and Friends: true stories of garden wildlife
  • Freckles and Friends: true stories of garden wildlife
  • Freckles and Friends: true stories of garden wildlife

  • Freckles and Friends: true stories of garden wildlife

  • One summer a young robin learned to sing perched on a small branch of an oak tree in an English garden with an aged cat protecting him from below. In a nearby wheelbarrow frogs set up home with an old newspaper as a lily pad.
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Freckles and Friends tells true engaging stories of wildlife in a small English garden. Freckles was a young robin with an adventurous spirit. The stories also include the exploits of bumblebees on raspberry flowers, a clockwork lobster in a moth trap and a family of wrens raising their chicks, called The Beakies, as well as numerous others. Written with 7-11 year-olds in mind, it is really suitable for all ages, including grown-ups.

48 pages 210 x 210 x 5 mm

 

Many readers have enjoyed finding their own stories in their gardens triggered by reading this book.

NOTE: An eBook is also available on Amazon Kindle priced £2.99: Freckles and Friends

 

Reviews

In a blog post [here] the story of reviews of Freckles and Friends, carried out by youngsters from Calderstones School in Liverpool, shows how the book engages with different people in many ways and can open eyes to the rich wildlife we can see in our gardens right under our noses

Reader reviews

I've recently read a book... a small unique book which was waiting for me when I got back from New York. It's a children's book written and published by my friend Amanda Davey. I read it from beginning to end in one sitting. This is what I said to her afterwards. "Freckles and Friends" is a wonderful, magical and informative book. It deserves a wider audience".

Freckles and Friends is a compendium of stories about the wildlife that lives in the garden of Amanda and her husband Simon. Each chapter focuses on a different animal and tells about the lives they lead in the garden. There is Atlas the squirrel (and the daffodils), Jacko, Porgie and Bess who are birds.... and a lovely chapter entitled "The bumblebee rap" among others.

The book opens with the enticing words "In the large oak tree at the bottom of the garden there is often a rustle of leaves and a crack of twigs followed by a chacking noise. This is where the squirrels run......"

This is a children's book, but I defy any adult with a smidgen of an interest in the natural world not to enjoy it and to learn a huge amount at the same time.

JL, Somerset May 2018.

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