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Patch and Ruby
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Patch the pony is lonely. He has fun with his young owner, Sam, and the other farm animals are friendly, but sometimes it feels as if he still doesn’t quite fit in. Then one day Sam has an idea, and something happens that changes Patch’s life...
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Patch the pony is lonely. Sometimes it feels as if he doesn’t quite fit in on the farm. But one day something happens that changes his life forever. A wonderful tale about friendship and finding out where you belong.
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Description
Patch the pony is lonely. He has fun with his young owner, Sam, and the other farm animals are friendly, but sometimes it feels as if he still doesn’t quite fit in.
Then one day Sam has an idea, and something happens that changes Patch’s life forever.
Patch and Ruby is a wonderful, often very funny tale about friendship and finding out where you belong.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781925335224
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 October 2016
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: EK Books
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Gwynneth Jones
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 254.0mm
Height: 241.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 32
About the Author
Anouska Jones is a publisher, editor, book reviewer and writer. She is the Publisher for Exisle Publishing and EK Books, and is the Senior Editor of children’s literature website Kids’ Book Review. She lives on her rural property with her husband and daughter, three horses, six chickens, one dog, one cat and one budgie. Gwynneth Jones drew all through her maths book at school, so left to study art at TAFE and then majored in Plant and Wildlife Illustration at the University of Newcastle. Since then, Gwynneth has been imagining and drawing madly, exhibiting and holding market stalls, and creating picture books.
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