Sly Fox And Hambone

About the Book

Sly Fox and Hambone Sly is bored while reading his newspaper in his den. He adventures out of his house to see what he can find. He walks to the nearby farmyard and sees a huge pig playing in the mud. The pig named “Hambone” follows Sly to his house. After a long walk, they both get hungry. They scoot out of Sly’s house that is underground and go into a secret tunnel that Sly created to get to the hen house. They come up against a few problems leaving the hen house with the food while trying to return to Sly’s house. They aren’t sure they can get back home because the tunnel they are walking in is crumbling down on them. Sly and Hambone find that only way to save each other from these obstacles is to work together. Will they be able to return to Sly’s house unharmed? Or will they have to stay in the tunnel forever? It’s an adventure kids won’t want to miss!

About the Author

Nancy D. Kramer Nancy was born and raised on an apple farm in Elkridge, Maryland, just south of Baltimore. Nancy is the oldest of four children who grew up on the farm. The whole family was involved in the apple business. They climbed trees, picked apples, weeded the gardens, cut grass, and swam in the pond. Nancy and her two sisters and one brother played in the woods, making forts and camps, and played cowboys and Indians with bows and arrows and play pistols. We swam and fished in the pond at our Sunday picnics with cousins and aunts and uncles, with lots of good food and good family. Nancy loves animals, nature, wildlife, and the outdoors. She trained and rode ponies and horses all of her life, some of which she owned for many years. Nancy’s writings reflect her younger years with animals, horses, farms, wildlife, and the outdoors. She wrote short stories in high school. Later, she took a college writing course “Writing Stories for Children and Teenagers”. The first non-fiction human-interest story she wrote was published in the September 2001 issue of “Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred”, a national magazine. She worked as an administrative secretary at a local county public school system in Howard County for thirty years. After retiring, she enjoys horseback riding, giving riding lessons to children and adults, and writing stories for children. Nancy got lucky when she found the illustrator for this book, Brittany M. Byers, who is a college student that lives in Nancy’s neighborhood in Westminster, Maryland.