The Animals of Farthing Wood

by Colin Dann, Paul Whitehouse (Read by), Esther Coles (Read by)

Overview

After their legendary journey out of danger and into the safe haven of White Deer Park, the animals of Farthing Wood look forward to getting used to their new life in the nature preserve.

But winter is drawing in: the nights are colder and food for the animals is scarce. Other animals in the park are unfriendly and want to make trouble, and around the park there are the perils of hunters' traps, as well as humans and their machines. Will life ever return to normal for the animals of Farthing Wood?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781486242467
Publisher:	Bolinda Audio
Publication date:	12/30/2014
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Colin Dann was born in Richmond in 1943. After leaving the local Grammar School he worked first for a large textile company before his real love—the world of books—brought him a job in publishing at William Collins in London where he worked as a manager in the Fontana paperback division. During this time, in odds hours at home, he wrote his first book The Animals of Farthing Wood which was published finally in 1979 by William Heinemann after several rejections. It was an immediate success, winning the Arts Council of Great Britain’s National Book Award for Children’s Literature and has been translated into sixteen languages. The book has never been out of print since first publication. Six sequels and one prequel have followed and enjoyed similar success.

Editorial Reviews

Swiftly moving human destruction has dug up the grassland, cut down three-quarters of the woods and ruined the last water-hole. All that's left is a muddy trickle and a bit of woods that will soon be gone. Now the animals of Farthing Wood must make a life-changing decision. Can they put aside their differences and join together to make their way to the nature reserve where they can live in peace? Led by kindly Badger, clever Fox and oh-so-slow Toad, the motley crew of displaced forest creatures ventures from their beloved Farthing Wood to journey to the paradise of White Deer Park, facing many dangers along the way. Can Fox outrun and outsmart the hunters and the hounds? Can Badger lead them safely across fields poisoned with pesticides and herbicides? Will a busy motorway be the insurmountable obstacle in their path? At times, this book is scary, including a gruesome but realistic description of how butcher birds kill their prey; at times, it is funny, such as when the animals hide behind a church's pipe organ only to disrupt a wedding party when the first notes of the wedding march sound. In the end, readers will be cheering as the exhausted band triumphantly marches through the gates of the nature reserve. A must-read for any and all animal lovers! The publisher of this book is committed to ethical publishing, meaning that the workers who make the books are treated with fairness and respect and all of the paper used comes from environmentally and socially responsible forest sources.

Children's Literature - Anita Barnes Lowen