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Adventures with a Yorkshire Vet: The Lucky Foal and Other Animal Tales
A classic collection of farm animal tales written by best-loved Yorkshire Vet, Julian Norton.
Follow the adventures of a local vet and the various farm animals who need his help and care over the course of one summer. Set against the wild and beautiful Yorkshire hills, these ten stories featuring farmyard favourites such as horses, goats, cows and more are sure to delight and inspire a love of animals from the youngest age.
Follow the adventures of a local vet and the various farm animals who need his help and care over the course of one summer. Set against the wild and beautiful Yorkshire hills, these ten stories featuring farmyard favourites such as horses, goats, cows and more are sure to delight and inspire a love of animals from the youngest age.
240 pages, Hardcover
Published June 1, 2023
About the author
Julian Norton
16 books39 followersJulian Norton is a British veterinary surgeon, author and TV personality, best known for his appearances on the Channel 5 TV series The Yorkshire Vet
Norton was born and brought up in the mining town of Castleford and went to school in Wakefield at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, before gaining a place to study veterinary medicine at Cambridge University
Since 2015, Norton has been involved, taking the titular role in Channel 5 docuseries The Yorkshire Vet, produced by Daisybeck Studios in Leeds. The programme has been popular, achieving viewing figures of over 2 million, making it one of the channel's most successful.Julian has also featured as a regular guest on The Wright Stuff as well as Springtime on the Farm and Big Week at the Zoo.
He contributes a weekly column in The Country Week of The Yorkshire Post.
He performs regular "in conversation" events with comedian and stand up poet, Kate Fox.
Julian's website is www.thenakedvet.co.uk which offers links to the podcasts of the same name, which he performs with Kate Fox.
Norton attained a certificate in Small Animal Practice in 2007 and has been awarded the Dalesman "Yorkshireman of the Year 2017".
Norton was born and brought up in the mining town of Castleford and went to school in Wakefield at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, before gaining a place to study veterinary medicine at Cambridge University
Since 2015, Norton has been involved, taking the titular role in Channel 5 docuseries The Yorkshire Vet, produced by Daisybeck Studios in Leeds. The programme has been popular, achieving viewing figures of over 2 million, making it one of the channel's most successful.Julian has also featured as a regular guest on The Wright Stuff as well as Springtime on the Farm and Big Week at the Zoo.
He contributes a weekly column in The Country Week of The Yorkshire Post.
He performs regular "in conversation" events with comedian and stand up poet, Kate Fox.
Julian's website is www.thenakedvet.co.uk which offers links to the podcasts of the same name, which he performs with Kate Fox.
Norton attained a certificate in Small Animal Practice in 2007 and has been awarded the Dalesman "Yorkshireman of the Year 2017".
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August 27, 2024
The second Yorkshire Vet book for middle-schoolers. Much like the first, a fun read, very heavy on the rewards of being a rural vet, but with plenty of examples of how it's stressful and strenuous too. Great for the target audience, and adults will also like the charm and characters.
November 17, 2024
audiobook version.
December 12, 2023
The newest Adventures with a Yorkshire Vet! This time greedy pigs, alpacas, a cow with a problem, and more!
I was so excited that there was a new book in this series, the first book was just oodles of fun to read! And this book? Just as fun!
In this book we encounter a whole group of animals again, some stories are sad, some are funny, some had me worried as to whether the animal would be fine or not, and I loved reading them all! I loved the variety of animals that we read about. We get tortoises, alpacas, llamas, but also pigs (very hungry ones) and goats and horses. There are ten stories in total and each one was just a delight. The writing style is just a-plus, this is one of those books that I read in one go. I just fly through. I cannot stop reading it is just that fun.
We also get one story about how our vet has to judge a contest, which sounds easy (well apart from the whole all the animals are just so cute/fun/sweet) but given that most of these peeps are clients at his vet practice who tried to bribe him. Haha. I could imagine he was so happy when he was done with the day. XD Oh, and some stories just had me going URGH or EWW. Like the one with the tiny goat and what she had on her face or the one with the llama and the broken jaw. No thank you.
My favourite story would be the tortoise that wouldn’t wake up/not eat and thus had to be encouraged to eat, and on second place definitely the one about the alpaca who had to get braces/bandages so she could walk.
Just like the previous book I really liked the illustrations, for the animals that is. Humans/other things were a bit odd at times.
All in all, bring me more books by this Yorkshire Vet! I want to read more of his adventures and see what animals he helps out next!
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
I was so excited that there was a new book in this series, the first book was just oodles of fun to read! And this book? Just as fun!
In this book we encounter a whole group of animals again, some stories are sad, some are funny, some had me worried as to whether the animal would be fine or not, and I loved reading them all! I loved the variety of animals that we read about. We get tortoises, alpacas, llamas, but also pigs (very hungry ones) and goats and horses. There are ten stories in total and each one was just a delight. The writing style is just a-plus, this is one of those books that I read in one go. I just fly through. I cannot stop reading it is just that fun.
We also get one story about how our vet has to judge a contest, which sounds easy (well apart from the whole all the animals are just so cute/fun/sweet) but given that most of these peeps are clients at his vet practice who tried to bribe him. Haha. I could imagine he was so happy when he was done with the day. XD Oh, and some stories just had me going URGH or EWW. Like the one with the tiny goat and what she had on her face or the one with the llama and the broken jaw. No thank you.
My favourite story would be the tortoise that wouldn’t wake up/not eat and thus had to be encouraged to eat, and on second place definitely the one about the alpaca who had to get braces/bandages so she could walk.
Just like the previous book I really liked the illustrations, for the animals that is. Humans/other things were a bit odd at times.
All in all, bring me more books by this Yorkshire Vet! I want to read more of his adventures and see what animals he helps out next!
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
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