The Rescue Party (A Percy the Park Keeper Story)
By (Author) Nick Butterworth
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins Children's Books
30th July 2003
4th August 2003
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
823.914
Paperback
32
Width 259mm, Height 265mm, Spine 3mm
230g
Reformatted edition of this core Percy title with a contemporary new cover design. Includes a surprise fold-out page Percy the park keeper is having a day off. It is a perfect day for doing nothing. But Percy's peaceful picnic is disturbed when a little rabbit meets with a nasty tumble into an old well. All the animals gather together with a huge rope to help pull the rabbit out. But all they tug from the well is the branch of a tree. But the rabbit has already found her own way out...through an passage under the ground and she's at the end of the line with the other animals lending a hand!
The Rescue Party: '...it's good for reading aloud to under-fives, and later the six-pluses will still want to read it themselves.' The Independent on Sunday One Snowy Night 'A heartwarming bedtime tale...' Susan Hill, The Independent After the Storm: '...look no further for the best present for any child from two to six.' Susan Hill, The Sunday Times Percy's Bumpy Ride: 'Imaginatively detailed illustrations and just the right amount of suspense.' Practical Parenting
Nick Butterworth was born in North London in 1946 and grew up in a sweet shop in Essex. He now lives in Suffolk with his wife Annette and they have two grown-up children, Ben and Amanda. The inspiration for the Percy the Park Keeper books came from Nick's many walks through the local park with the family dog Jake.