I met up for coffee today with the delightful Rosemary Straker. Her Oak Tree Farm stories have given happy, funny bedtime reading to any number of children and their parents and grandparents. I think it's www.oaktreefarm.co.uk, but if you put Rosemary's name and Oak Tree farm into a search engine you'll find them. Rosemary grew up on a farm and the stories ping with authenticity. Lambs have to be rescued from snowdrifts and warmed by the fire and Bertie the Bull sees a few burglars off the premises. All colourfully illustrated by Zoe Murphy. Those animals have character.
And Rosemary hasn't made a penny out of those books. She wrote them as a fund raiser for Tynedale Hospice. And that, as they say in 1066 and all that, is a Good Thing.
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