Sadie and Ratz (5 page)
“Oh dear,” said Dad.
“Oh no,” sighed Mom.
“Hooray!” I said. Because when Sadie and Ratz came home from vacation, they were going to meet two new friends.
Baby Boy said their names were
Sonya Hartnett
is the acclaimed and award-winning author of several novels for older readers, including
The Midnight Zoo, Thursday’s Child, What the Birds See, Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost’s Child, Butterfly,
and the Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Surrender.
About
Sadie and Ratz,
her first illustrated chapter book, she says, “My niece Hannah gave names to her hands when she was only two. They are the toughest, roughest pair of hands a little girl could have. Everyone is scared of them. . . . But Hannah loves them, and they love her.” Sonya Hartnett lives in Australia.
Ann James
is the award-winning illustrator of more than sixty books for children, including
The Midnight Babies, Little Humpty,
and
Lucy Goosey,
all written by Margaret Wild, and
The Way I Love You
by David Bedford. About
Sadie and Ratz,
she says, “My hands, both of them, are nearly always well behaved. But they can be naughty too. What they are really best at is patting dogs and cats, and drawing dogs and cats, though we (my hands and I) loved this story about Hannah’s hands.” Ann James lives in Australia.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
Text copyright © 2008 by Sonya Hartnett
Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Ann James
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.
First U.S. electronic edition 2012
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Hartnett, Sonya.
Sadie and Ratz / Sonya Hartnett. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Hannah and her hands, named Sadie and Ratz, regularly get into trouble, especially when younger brother Baby Boy is around.
ISBN 978-0-7636-5315-6 (hardcover)
[1. Hand — Fiction. 2. Imagination — Fiction. 3. Behavior — Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters — Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H267387Sad 2012
[Fic] — dc23 2011045899
ISBN 978-0-7636-5990-5 (electronic)
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