Bedtime Stories About Forest Animals
登録なしで無料で読めます。本棚のお話は、どれもきちんと終わります。
The forest at night is one of the most complete worlds available to the bedtime imagination: layered, alive, full of creatures who are only visible if you are very still and very quiet. A bedtime story set in the forest invites children into exactly that stillness. You have to slow down to see a hedgehog settling under a log. You have to be very quiet to hear an owl land in a fir tree. Forest stories teach the body to do what the mind is being asked to do: be still, be quiet, wait.
Forest animals carry the additional gift of being real: these are not invented creatures, but actual animals that a child knows exist, going about their actual lives in actual darkness right now, as the story is being told. The owl is real. The badger is real. The deer stepping carefully through the bracken is real. This combination of imagination and reality gives forest stories a particular grounding quality that purely fantastical stories sometimes lack.
“Slow Paw, Soft Paw”
The rain is done. The grass is wet. The sky goes soft and gray. Bo the hedgehog stops and blinks where the burrow bends away.
Down in the burrow it is dark. Bo stands. Bo does not go. His prickles lift. His small nose twitches. "Dark," says Bo, soft and low.
お話をまるごと読むこのお話は本棚に並んでいて、誰でも読めます。あなたがつくる世界は、あなた自身の選択をもとに紡がれます。
ひとつの世界、ひとつの結末、7つの章。
まず世界をひとつ作り、最初の一言の前に結末を選びます。そしてつながった7つの章の本を、ご家族の好きなときに読み聞かせます。
場所を選ぼう。
舞台と登場人物を選びましょう。オリジナルのキャラクターを加えることもできます。読む年齢はお子さまに合わせてください。
結末を選ぼう。
みんなが家に帰るのか、何かを贈るのか、それとも登場人物たちが自分の世界にとどまるのか。本が始まる前に、あなたが決めます。
いっしょに読もう。
時間のあるときに、各章をプレビューできます。ご家族に合うときに読み聞かせてください。お気に入りの紙の本といっしょにどうぞ。
最初の一冊は無料です。その後の本はどれも、無料の1章から始まり、残りは$14で、1回きりのお支払いです。 好きなときに、好きなだけ読めます。サブスクリプションはありません。 導入特別価格です。
世界をつくるよくあるご質問
Which forest animals make the best bedtime story characters?
Animals with natural nighttime settling behaviour are ideal: badgers (returning to their sett), hedgehogs (curling up), deer (lying down in meadow edges), owls (settling on their perch), dormice (their hibernation is one of the most extreme examples of restful sleep in nature). Foxes, rabbits, and woodland mice also work beautifully. The key is choosing an animal whose natural behaviour involves finding somewhere safe and still.
Are forest stories appropriate for children who are afraid of the dark?
Forest stories for bedtime should always treat the dark as comfortable and safe for the animals in them, not mysterious or frightening. The darkness of a sett or a hollow tree is a home; the darkness of the forest is where familiar creatures move without hesitation. Children who are anxious about the dark sometimes find it helpful to hear the dark treated as a place where very ordinary, very peaceful things are happening.
Can a forest story be set in a specific season?
Yes. Autumn and winter forest stories often feel particularly settling: the forest is quieter, the animals are preparing for rest, and the quality of light and air changes in ways that match the mood of bedtime. Spring and summer stories have a different quality, more alive and more full of sound, but can be equally beautiful when focused on the creatures that settle at night even in warm weather.
What age range enjoys forest animal stories most?
Forest stories tend to work well from age 3 through about 10. Younger children love the characters and the safety of creatures in their homes. Older children in this range often appreciate the naturalist detail: the accuracy of animal behaviour, the specific plants and features of a woodland, the sense of a complete and self-sufficient world going about its quiet business.
このテーマで世界をつくることはできますか?
はい。ワークショップでは、場所とそこに住む者を選ぶか、自分で自由に考えて、絶対に起こってほしくないことを加えられます。お子さまの名前を入れることもできます。そのあと、最初の一言の前に本の結末を選び、7つの章をご家族の都合のよいときに読み聞かせましょう。
料金はいくらですか?
最初の一冊は無料です。その後の本はどれも、無料の1章から始まり、残りは$14で、1回きりのお支払いです。 好きなときに、好きなだけ読めます。サブスクリプションはありません。 導入特別価格です。