Welcome to Silver Street Farm by Nicola Davies

Author:Nicola Davies [Davies, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7636-5996-7
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2011-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

Sashi, the young reporter at Cosmic TV, was delighted. It was the best story they’d had in months, she said. Within five minutes, the children and the animals were lined up in the studio. It wasn’t much more than a broom closet with lights, but it didn’t matter. Meera and Karl held a lamb each, and the five ducklings popped their heads out of Gemma’s T-shirt.

“Looks good!” said Stewy the cameraman, peering through his dreadlocks with a grin. “Looks really, really good!”

“If we get this right,” said Meera, “the city council should give us Silver Street Farm tied up with a ribbon!”

“OK, everybody!” said Sashi. “On air in five, four . . .” she counted the last three seconds with her fingers.

A little red light lit up on Stewy’s camera.

Sashi smiled into the camera and began to speak: “Three Lonchester children have big plans to make the derelict station at Silver Street into Lonchester’s first city farm,” she told the camera. “The city council may have other plans for the old station, but two extraordinary twists of fate have given the children a head start with their plans and provided them with their first farm animals!”

Then Sashi asked Karl about the poodle-lambs and how Auntie Nat had been tricked, while he and Meera fed the lambs with a bottle. Sashi asked Gemma about the “rotten” eggs that the vet was going to throw out, which had hatched into ducklings, while Gemma held a duckling and stroked its fluffy yellow head.

Then Sashi turned to Meera. “Why do you want to make Silver Street Station into a city farm?” she asked.

For a moment, Meera’s head swam with all the dreams and plans that she and Gemma and Karl had made since they were small. Then, suddenly, she knew just what to say.

“Ever since we were in kindergarten, we’ve dreamed about making a farm in the city,” she began. “We want all Lonchester children to come to Silver Street Farm and see what farm animals are like, so that no one grows up thinking that eggs and milk comes from a carton.”

“Well, you heard it here first!” said Sashi. “More from Cosmic TV News at three.”

The red light went off.

“That was brilliant, kids!” said Sashi. “This story is going to be so big!”

“Yeah! Big! So big,” said Stewy. “Can I hold a duckling now?”

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