Slow Down . . . on Your Doorstep: Calming Nature Stories for Little Ones

by Rachel Williams, Freya Hartas (Illustrator)

Overview

This charming addition to the Slow Down series brings a sense of calm with short nature stories for little ones

Discover a magical world of nature on your doorstep. Charming rhyming verse presents six mindful moments—including a squirrel burying a nut and a rainbow forming on a rainy day—to the youngest readers. Slow Down . . . on Your Doorstep is a fabulous introduction for first readers from the team that created the international bestseller Slow Down.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419761478
Publisher:	Magic Cat
Publication date:	08/02/2022
Series:	Slow Down
Pages:	12
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.65(d)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Rachel Williams studied literature before becoming an editor and publisher of children's books. She is also the creator of bestselling natural history and adventure books, including The Atlas of Adventures series and Illuminature. She lives with her husband and two small children in London.

Editorial Reviews

2022-05-25
What’s more magical than nature?

Six brief, charming verses and colorful, endearing illustrations offer up a world of wonderment in familiar surroundings as well as simple, easily digestible information to young readers: A butterfly emerges from its chrysalis, dew forms and evaporates, birds greet the dawn with song, a bee goes about its vital pollination work, a chick hatches, and a spider weaves an intricate, ingenious web. Children are given the opportunity to witness these familiar but no less thrilling phenomena up-close and personal, in the here and now, not only surprising them with the natural world’s amazements, but also reminding them to revel in and be mindful of the wonders as they’re occurring in the moment—hence the Slow Down admonition in the book’s title. Each natural-world miracle in this sweet board book, a British import, is delivered in a two-page spread, with a rhyme on the verso page and intimate pen-and-ink and digitally colored illustrations presented in panels on the recto page. Several words in each rhyme are set in a larger, boldface font with capital letters. The lilting rhymes scan well and benefit from being read aloud. Apart from youngsters enjoying listening to and learning from these delightful rhymes, they can be encouraged to suggest other natural phenomena that fascinate them and then illustrate their ideas. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

A lovely aural and visual introduction to some of nature’s miracles. (Board book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews