Key Selling Points

• Pasture Bedtime is astory about friendship and different ways of looking at the world.
• This is the first of four books to come out in the Charlie’s Rules series; the next are due out in Spring 2021, Fall 2021 and Spring 2022.
• This book showcases the wildly different personalities of the two main characters and how they reconcile their ways of living life. Charlie is very reserved and lives ‘by the book’ while Amy is outgoing and impulsive.
• This book is chock-full of animal stories; a puppy is abandoned, a dog falls ill with a mysterious sickness, a cow gets stuck in a tree, an owl gets into a sticky situation and a kitten has tummy troubles. An author note in the back of the book explains that all of these stories are true.
• Sigmund Brouwer is well-known by teachers and librarians and his Orca Echoes books are bestsellers within the series.

There's no rulebook for living on a veterinary farm for sick animals — unless you make one yourself!

Eleven-year-old Charlie Dembinski likes to keep his life organized and quiet. This is a challenge when you live on a farm where your mother runs a veterinary clinic for the local livestock, neighbors’ pets and sometimes rescued wildlife. To complicate Charlie’s orderly life even further, his mother hires a bookkeeper to live on the farm who brings along her daughter, Amy Ma. And Amy is anything but quiet! Her constant questions and attempts to spend time with Charlie really bother him, and he doesn’t understand why the adults seem to like her so much. But when a neighbor’s beloved dog gets sick with a mysterious illness, Charlie realizes that Amy’s outgoing approach might not be all that bad.

This is the first book in the Charlie's Rules series.