Old Mother West Wind Tales by Muz Murray
The Award-winning Bedtime Book that Begs to be Read Aloud
Old Mother West Wind Tales is an utterly delightful updated version of the century-old classic by Thornton W. Burgess, completely rewritten in a lyrical and easier-to-read-aloud poetical version for today’s parents.
Children delight in the mischievous antics of the animals and birds of the Grassy Green Meadow, the Pollywig Pool, and the Windily Wood. All the old favourites–Johnny Chuck, fly-gobbling Grandfather Frog, Jimmy Skunk, and sly Reddy Fox—are joined in their adventures by new characters such as Billy Brock, little Zoëy Otter and her brother Otty, Sneezle the Weasel, and Toby Cockles the Terrapin.
And fun facts about the real-life habits of the animals portrayed in the stories are found after each chapter, offering educational insights into wildlife.
Each chapter is a separate story, only ten, fifteen, or twenty minutes long; being ideal for bedtime reading suitable for 3-year-olds and upwards, and for early readers from 6 -12 years.
These gentle rhyming bedtime tales from a timeless world charm adults as much as children.
Discover…
· How the Merry Little Breezes Saved Mrs. Redwing’s Eggs
· Why Grandfather Frog has no tail
· Why Jimmy Skunk wears stripes
· How Pee-Tee the Prankster Rabbit got his Comeuppance
· How Reddy Fox had a Terrible Fright
· How Little Zoëy Otter Saved Grandfather Frog
· How Johnny Chuck Found the Best Thing in the World
· And many more amusingly quirky stories…
Sixteen wholesome stories encourage friendship, kindness, heroism, justice, and above all, a love of nature and respect for creatures of the wild. They also cover vanity, pride, wilfulness, bullying, boasting, mischievous pranks, and their karmic comeback. The tales have gentle moral pointers that show the consequences of specific actions, like, “Whatever you do, will come back on you.”
The book will appeal to lovers of Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit,the Brambly Hedge books, and The Wind in the Willows.
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Author Bio:
Muz Murray is a world-travelling adventurer, author, artist, actor, singer, psychotherapist, mystic, spiritual master and mantra yogi (and has trained elephants).
He began his career as a surrealist painter, actor and set and costume designer for the theatre, later becoming Founder-editor of Gandalf’s Garden magazine and Community in the London Sixties, Was 3 years a columnist for Yoga Today magazine, Scriptwriter and narrator for BBC 4, co-editor of The Mountain Path journal (India) and author of five spiritually oriented books and as a storyteller, two books for children.
He has appeared in several Interviews on BBC TV and on Dutch and Italian Television, and also on California and Colorado Radio networks.
Because of his wild adventures while hitch-hiking all down Africa, and all over India, the Media has dubbed him “The Indiana Jones of Yoga”; although I these days he is more often taken for Gandalf.
He now lives a hermit-life in the hills of southern Portugal, with the denizens of his children’s books and a thousand geckos for company.