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Nicola Davies is an award-winning author, whose many books for children include The Day War Came, King of the Sky, LOTS, Tiny, The Promise (winner of the 2014 English Association Picture Book award for best fiction), A First Book of Nature (winner of the Independent Booksellers Best Picture Book), Whale Boy (Blue Peter Book Awards Shortlist 2014) and the Heroes of the Wild series (Portsmouth Book Award 2014). Nicola's children's books from Graffeg include Perfect (2017 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Longlist), The Pond (2018 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Longlist), the Shadows and Light series of folk tale-based stories, and the Animal Surprises series of informative rhyming picture books.Cathy Fisher has been a practising artist for all of her life, working in England, the Seychelles and Australia. As well as the Country Tales series, Cathy is the illustrator behind the much celebrated Graffeg picture books Perfect (2016) and The Pond (2017).

Key Stage: KS1Subject area: Health and Wellbeing, RelationshipsKey themes: Relocation, immigration and relationshipsCountry Tales by Nicola Davies with line drawings by Cathy Fisher, the collaboration behind CILIP Greenaway Medal longlisted titles Perfect and The Pond.One in a series of six illustrated short stories about young people growing up in the countryside.Praise for Nicola Davies and Cathy Fisher’s collaborations:‘It made me breathe a sigh of relief to remember that words and pictures can help widen and explain the world for children.’ – Laura Carlin, artist and illustrator‘Heart-wrenching, powerful, and beautifully realised’ – Kirkus Reviews