Noisy Nights by Fleur McDonald and Annie White

NOiSY NiGhtS

To my little farmers Rochelle, Hayden, Ned, Lexy and Mac. FM To the joy of a good night’s sleep. AW

First published in Australia 2016

by New Frontier Publishing Pty Ltd ABN 67 126 171 757 48 Ross Street, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia www.newfrontier.com.au

Text copyright © 2016 Fleur McDonald Illustrations copyright © 2016 Annie White This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted by the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiries should be addressed to the publishers.

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Title: Noisy Nights / Fleur McDonald ; illustrations by Annie White.

ISBN: 9781925059663 (hardback) Target Audience: For pre-school age.

Subjects: Domestic animals--Australia--Juvenile fiction.

Farms--Australia--Juvenile fiction.

Other Creators/Contributors: White, Annie, illustrator.

Dewey Number: A823.4 Designed by Celeste Hulme 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

NOiSY NiGhtS Fleur McDonald Illustrated by Annie White

Farmer Hayden couldn’t get to sleep. It was dark, and the stars were shining ... but it was so NOISY outside his window.

The animals on Farmer Hayden’s farm talked a lot at night.

The crickets chirped.

The dogs barked.

The cows moo-ed

and the sheep maa-ed.

‘Please be quiet everyone,’ said Farmer Hayden.

But it wasn’t any good. The animals were making so much noise they couldn’t hear Farmer Hayden talking.

The next night it was noisier still.

The crickets chirped, the dogs barked, the cows moo-ed and the sheep maa-ed.

The horses nickered to their foals, and foxes howled as they came out of their holes.