You are previewing: Old Mother West Wind Tales

Old Mother West Wind Tales

Author	Muz Murray

Old Mother West Wind Tales

Name: Old Mother West Wind Tales
SKU: 9551
Availability: InStock

Muz Murray

The 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.

$5.45

Add to wishlist

Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn

Categories: Book, Century fox, Children's Books, Classics Tags: Children's Folk Tales & Myths (Books), Children's Nature Books (Books), Children's Nature Books (Kindle Store)

Description
Meet The Author
Reviews (0)

The 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.

*******************************

Muz Murray

Muz Murray (1940) Just before his 24th birthday, an out-of-the-blue experience of Cosmic Consciousness set Muz Murray on a path of rigorous mystical research and practice that changed his life and his whole concept of existence. His books reflect the insights and personal experience of his lifelong investigation into self-realization, including NDE and Samadhi states, and offer practical methods to awakening. His findings happily coincide with the revelations of the Sages of the past, whose often obscure statements he clearly explains.

“Your writing is breath of fresh air!” says one grateful reviewer.

He began his career as a passionate surrealist painter (friendly with Salvador Dali) and became a theatrical Set & Costume Designer and actor in theatre and film and a BBC TV Scenic Artist. He was the founder-creator of the renowned "Gandalf's Garden" magazine and community in the London Sixties, becoming a British spiritual cult hero in the Flower-Power era.

Because of his 7 years of vagabondage, hitch-hiking halfway round the world—sleeping under the bridges with tramps in Paris, working as an elephant trainer (Tel Aviv) and Night-club singer (Acco); a rock-driller in King Solomon’s mines (Timna, Israeli desert); deckhand on a tramp ship, and trekking down the length of Africa (being shot at by bandits, surviving knife attacks, hold-ups, poisoned darts, and an earthquake), crossing deserts, living with the Dervishes in Turkey and Iran, living three years as a wandering monk in India, as well as clinging to the outside of an express train for 10 hours through the night—he is described in the Media as ‘the Indiana Jones of Yoga.’

*****