Life With Bluebell And Other Tales from an Animal Orphanage

by PaulineKidner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.25

  Pauline Kidner lives on a small dairy farm in Somerset, surrounded by the wild animals which she has rescued and cared for over the years. A family of badgers lives beside the milk parlour, there are foxes in the tractor shed, the mink has a hut beside the front door, and there is a barn owl who once spent the night in a central London police cell. In particular, there is Bluebell the sow badger, who appears with Pauline on the front cover of her book, and who is her favourite among the many animals and birds she has looked after. Each chapter is devoted to a particular family of animals, which are all described with humour and anecdote. The Kidners' farm is also the Somerset Levels Visitor Centre, and attracts 50,000 visitors every year. Pauline Kidner and her husband Derek have also founded the Bluebell Sett, a highly publicised fund for the preservation of wildlife.