Joe couldn't remember a time when he hadn't known Maggie; she'd been part of the family even before he was born. Maggie was a cow dog, and she was the best baby-sitter Joe ever had. Then when Joe was bigger, a skinny, red puppy wandered into the farmyard. He named her Silky, and from then on it was the three of them, inseparable--Maggie and Silky and Joe.
Amy Ehrlich is the author of more than thirty books for young readers and is also a winner of The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for her novel Joyride, which was also chosen Booklist Choice Best Book of the Decade. She lives on a farm in Northern Vermont with her husband and a great many domestic and agricultural animals.