Don't count your chickens - Simon Puttock

Ruth May has a new hobby: chickens. And she is completely hooked! She starts out with just two, but in no time at all, she has 16 chickens to cuddle and count, morning, noon and night. Ruth May is deliriously happy, but the chickens . . . well, that's a different matter. Fed up to the back beak with being cuddled and coddled, they escape to the park and teach Ruth May an important lesson. If you really love something, you have to set it free . . . and that applies to chickens too!

A former bookseller, Simon Puttock has been writing full-time for several years and his trademark witty characters have earned him a strong reputation in the world of children's books. As a small child Simon travelled the world with his family, but he has now settled in Scotland.