NICOLA DAVIES has a degree in zoology and is the author of many nonfiction books for young readers, including Gaia Warriors, Poop, and Just the Right Size. The Silver Street Farm stories mark her short-fiction series debut. About the series, she says, “I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t utterly besotted with animals.” She lives in Wales.

KATHARINE McEWEN has illustrated more than twenty-five books, including Allan Ahlberg’s The Children Who Smelled a Rat and Phyllis Root’s Here Comes Tabby Cat and Hey, Tabby Cat! She lives in London.