Escape from Silver Street Farm by Nicola Davies

Author:Nicola Davies [Davies, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7636-6562-3
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2011-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Nobody minded about the chaos caused by the sheep in the supermarket. The manager even insisted on having his photo taken with Kenny and his two “girls,” and the supermarket staff promised to sponsor Kenny’s food for a year! The whole city seemed to think that it was a big Christmas love story. Rockin’ Roland Rogers covered it on his afternoon show.

“Kenny the romantic ram crossed the city to find his true loves!” Lonchester’s most famous DJ told his listeners.

In fact, Kenny’s handsome face was all set to be front-page news until the story of the Great Turkey Baby Rescue broke.

“Baby Saved by Runaway Turkeys,” said the Lonchester Herald.

“Silver Street Turkeys Save the Day,” said the City Gazette.

“Trapeze Girl and Turkeys Save Baby from Drowning,” said the Daily Post.

“Turkeys Keep Baby from Getting Stuffed!” said the Lonchester Sun.

Once again, Silver Street Farm was big news. Flora’s office was full of reporters and cameramen, all wanting to talk to the children and take pictures of the turkeys, which were now safely back in their pen. Flora was delighted and handed out leaflets to every radio, TV, and newspaper reporter she could find, inviting them all to the grand opening on Christmas Eve.

“This is fantastic!” she said to the children. “Who would have thought the day would end like this?”

“Well, yes,” said Gemma doubtfully. “But I still don’t understand what really happened.”

“Well,” said Stewy, the cameraman from Cosmic TV who was an old friend of Silver Street, “Sashi knows the story, don’t you, Sash?”

Sashi, the Cosmic TV reporter and another old friend, beamed at the children.

“I do!” she said. “And what a story! A bouncy castle in a backyard ten miles away from the city was caught in a freak gale. It blew three miles into another yard and knocked over a stroller. The baby fell out of the stroller and onto the castle. And the castle blew into the canal. The baby’s mom had just dashed indoors to get her purse, and when she came out again, the stroller was tipped up and the baby was missing. She didn’t see the castle because the wind had already blown it down the canal. No one put the missing baby and the missing castle together, so no one knew where the baby had gone.”

“But what about the turkeys?” asked Meera.

“That’s the easy part, isn’t it?” said Sashi. “The bouncy castle got blown past your place just when the turkeys were flying over the fence.”

“But I thought only wild turkeys could fly,” said Karl.

“Maybe these turkeys are wilder than you thought,” said Sashi. “Or maybe,” she suggested, glancing at Buster, who was busy with some sandwich crumbs under Flora’s desk, “something scared them.”

The children still looked as if someone had told them that one and one no longer added up to two but made three and a half instead.

Sashi laughed. “You should see your faces,” she said. “Haven’t you three realized yet? This is just the kind of stuff that happens at Silver Street!

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