About this book

The animal spell

This book is about a girl who learns a trick to speak to animals. The girl is called Ruby and she is 11 years old. Something happens to all the animals on her farm, even her best friends, Yapper the dog and Jump the cat. She needs to work out what has happened to the animals and fix it but only the animals can tell her what has happened. One day an old wombat appears at her door. He seems less affected than the other animals. Then he speaks to her. What he says doesn't quite sound right. It doesn't quite sound like words but she knows exactly what he means. He tells her that he has come from far away and that he heard of the problems they faced here, but does not exactly know what is going on. He says she must ask the animals. He tells her that if she makes a meow sound to Jump while thinking as hard as she can to him what she wants to say to him, he will understand. Same with all the other animals. Make a moo sound to the cows, a bark sound to the dog, a squeak sound to the mice and a baa sound to the sheep. She won't be able to understand what they say back, not at first until she has spent a lot of time talking to them, so she will have to work it out somehow another way to communicate with them, ask them yes no questions give them signals to do or something but she must try her best. She must fix what has happened to them.