Storybooks · Grades 1 and 2
The Garden That Forgot Its Colours
On the bottom shelf, your child's name finds a big blue book.
- For Grades 1 and 2
- 3 endings
Ways to do it
- On their own, with their Pet
- With a grown-up beside them
- With someone far away, on a call
Also in العربية
For grown-ups
A garden in an unfinished storybook has lost its colours, and your child finds out why and helps paint them back in.
What your child practises
- Finding out what happened before deciding who is to blame
- Helping someone small, and staying kind when someone is cross
- How bright flowers help bees and butterflies find them
Listen for
Your child explaining why the colours went missing, or why flowers are bright.
Your part
- Ask the tip on each page, and wait for an answer
- When your child chooses, ask what they hope to find
Take it off the screen
Watch a patch of flowers outside for two minutes. Which colours do the bees and butterflies visit most?
Where the facts come from
After the book
The Seven Wonderlands
Book 1 in this series
- Book 1: The Garden That Forgot Its Colours (this book)
How it begins
On the bottom shelf, your child's name finds a big blue book. It has seven stars on the cover. Not one of them shines. "Open it," whispers their Pet. "Go on!"
The pictures inside are not finished. Some are only pencil lines. On the first page there is a tiny paper door. Clink! A golden key drops out of the page. Then a little voice calls through the door: "Oh, good. You've come!"
Your child's name and their Pet step through the door into a garden. But something is wrong. Every flower is white. The leaves are pale. In places the paint just stops, and there is only paper. It is very, very quiet.
A tiny fairy zips out of a tulip. "Our colours have gone missing!" she cries. "I'm Tansy, and this is my garden. Since the storm, every colour has gone. Every single one!" "Where did they go?" asks your child's name. "That," says Tansy, "is what we have to find out."
Tansy holds up her dandelion brush. "I'll just paint them back," she says. Dab, dab, dab! Fluffy seeds fly everywhere. The petal is still white. "It worked in my head," says Tansy, and sniffs. "Fine. We'll find out properly."
Dandelion fluff tickles their Pet's nose. ACHOO! The fluff blows off the path, and underneath are tiny footprints, leading away under the ferns. At the same moment, a small voice sobs among the daisies. Who first?
Your child chooses what happens next
The crying daisy
The footprints