Finch, page 13
He waited patiently, a white-and-tabby shadow of a cat, invisible in the mottled shadow of the bush.
The three little birds hopped closer, flirting their long tails. Now one of them separated from the others.
His belly almost touching the ground, Freddy moved slowly, silently towards it.
The two male birds fluttered upwards, sounding the alarm – See! See! See! – but the female, slower, stayed on the ground.
Freddy pounced.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PENNY MATTHEWS has written more than thirty books for children and young adults. She writes in a variety of genres and has won many awards, including the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award (Early Childhood category), the Environment Award for Children’s Literature and the Davitt Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. She lives in Adelaide.
For Viv
First published in 2018
by Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd
Locked Bag 22, Newtown
NSW 2042 Australia
www.walkerbooks.com.au
This ebook edition published in 2018
The moral rights of the author have been asserted.
Text © 2018 Penny Matthews
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise – without the prior written permission of the publisher.
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:
Matthews, Penny, author.
Finch / Penny Matthews.
For children.
Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction
ISBN: 978-1-760651-08-4 (ePub/mobi)
ISBN: 978-1-760651-07-7 (ePDF)
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Penny Matthews, Finch
