Thistledown Farm: Farmer John's Boots and Other Stories

He loses his boots and calls in the police to look for them. He gets into trouble when Myrtle his muck-spreader misbehaves and covers everybody with dung. He wears his wellingtons to Buckingham Palace to collect a knighthood but worst of all asks the Queen to muck out his calves when she comes to visit!

Farmer John could not survive without Wendy his wife. Wendy suffers Farmer John's mad ideas and odd behaviour with good humour, but sometimes she loses her temper with him. But it never lasts for long. Wendy realises that she can't change Farmer John and she doesn't really want to. She knows that life on Thistledown Farm would be very dull if she did!

This is the first in the Farmer John series written by David Charles - seventeen humorous farm stories for five to eight year olds plus, delightfully illustrated by Jake Tebbit.