Teaching children life skills, social skills and coping strategies, helping them understand their emotions and feelings through a wonderfully uplifting and inspiring story.
Written as an animal story book so children will not even realize they are learning! The story evolves around a bunch of forest animals who are drawn together to overcome some pretty interesting challenges. The creatures learn so much about themselves and each other, experience a whole new world, learn to make the magic of the forest come alive, and learn many more important lessons that any child will enjoy.
This story will help children overcome challenges such as while cultivating values such as and
All this is done by addressing the
Packed into a heartwarming, uplifting and positive story where a bunch of unlikely forest friends go on the adventure of a life time, overcome the beady eyed sharp clawed Victor Vulture, meet the mysterious Spirit of the Forest and save the Magical Medicine Tree. It is a story for young and old and will bring a smile to your face as you see where your imagination will take you.
Other books in the series are Owly and the Enchanted Forest and Spirit of the Forest Helps Owly and Friends.
1. The bunch of unlikely forest animals that came together represent the diverse cross section of people kids will meet in life, different personalities, problems etc 2. Owly the main character represents the inner wisdom of a child and about bringing out the best in themselves 3. Victor Vulture “appears” to be a bad guy but appearances can be deceptive and sometimes when we mess up there is a good and valid reason behind it 4. Magic Medicine Tree represent the healing power of nature and about looking after our environment and the world around us. 5. Spirit of the Forest represents the life force all around us and is an unseen spirit that guides and looks over the forest and all its inhabitants. It won’t help unless asked! 6. The twist-little messages that teach something of value to kids and this is how the story comes together!
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This is a really cute wholesome story with many wonderful ideas to share with one's children, I just wished it would have had more illustrations. I personally found with my own daughter the illustrations were half of the premise of the bedtime story, we both enjoyed them as much as the story itself. A lovely book just the same.
I wouldn’t class it as a very young children’s book, it is quite wordy for a young children’s book. I liked it though, it was a great little read full of loads of different lessons to be learned. One of the main ones I enjoyed was about working together, make a family with everyone around you, to then make a great home.
I would have liked to have seen more images, just something to break up the words more.
(Disclaimer: I received a copy from the Publisher. Does not affect my review.)
Merged review:
I wouldn’t class it as a very young children’s book, it is quite wordy for a young children’s book. I liked it though, it was a great little read full of loads of different lessons to be learned. One of the main ones I enjoyed was about working together, make a family with everyone around you, to then make a great home.
I would have liked to have seen more images, just something to break up the words more.
This is a good short story that teaches children about being a good and the beginning stages of what having manners and respect is. I finished it in one sitting and read it to my son over a few nights. Well, I read the paperback, which has all three parts, but I read this part one as an e-book.
Spoiler Free Review: I always admire people who write children’s books. It takes a certain level of creativity and experience to pull it off. Now having said that, when I do admire Orla for her hard work and effort, I’m afraid this did not work for me at all.
I was bored. Like really bored. I’m aware that I’m not the target audience, however I feel the need to point out that I’ve read and enjoyed countless books for children and have fallen in love with plenty of them. This simply did not cut it.
The Owly Trilogy was just loong and too wordy at times. This needed images to support the story and kind of break through all the long paragraphs. The dialogue was sparse. We were told ....
Spoiler Free Review: I always admire people who write children’s books. It takes a certain level of creativity and experience to pull it off. Now having said that, when I do admire Orla for her hard work and effort, I’m afraid this did not work for me at all.
I was bored. Like really bored. I’m aware that I’m not the target audience, however I feel the need to point out that I’ve read and enjoyed countless books for children and have fallen in love with plenty of them. This simply did not cut it.
The Owly Trilogy was just loong and too wordy at times. This needed images to support the story and kind of break through all the long paragraphs. The dialogue was sparse. We were told ....