Hope and the Farm Festival

Written and illustrated by Julia Griffith

Hope is looking forward to the Farm Festival at Meadowbrook Farm. However when things start to go wrong, it looks as if the festival might not happen at all.

With help from her farmyard friends, Hope discovers how taking responsibility, forgiveness, compassion and teamwork can help save the day.

Can they rescue the Farm Festival and what will they learn along the way?

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Note from the Author

Hope and the Farm Festival was my way of saying thank you to some very special people who encouraged me when I first started writing and illustrating my books.

At the time, I was sharing my artwork on TikTok and had met some wonderfully supportive people.  I decided to give a few of them a little place in Hope’s next adventure by naming the characters after them and their animals.

Sunny, the horse at the heart of the story, was named in memory of a much-loved horse who had sadly passed away.  His owner also had two rescue ponies called Honey and Treacle.  I was warned that Treacle was rather naughty, so naturally I couldn’t resist letting Treacle get up to all sorts of mischief!

And Fran the farmer was named after a lovely friend in Canada who became the first person overseas to buy one of my books.

I loved weaving these real connections into a fictional adventure.  Beneath all the fun and mischief, there’s a gentle message about kindness, teamwork and taking responsibility.

But most importantly, I hope children simply enjoy the adventure, laugh at Treacle’s antics and have fun making the illustrations their own with colour.