With four children under five, living on a small farm near Melbourne, the author respected the need for their careful education and sensible discipline and told them stories, based on farm and wild animals, that would impart to them life lessons for their paths ahead!
With the passage of time, some twenty-five plus years, these stories have now been put down in writing and published for children everywhere who will face similar challenges and choices in their own lives that the author’s children successfully met in theirs.
Bruno is a big, old, kind and handsome bear who has six children and two grandchildren!They all live in the wilderness amongst hundreds of trees and bushes alongside a fast-flowing river. Life is good until one day when Bruno sees his granddaughter, Coco, looking sad, standing alone on the riverb...
Swoopy is a black and white magpie who lives high up in a gum tree with his Mum and Dad, just near a golf course.One day when his parents are away finding food, he sees a pretty pink golf ball plop along the green grass below their nest. He flies down, picks it up, and takes it back up into the nest...
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Cookie was a little black cat who was always exploring the house, the backyard and the trees around the house he lived in with Mrs Prentice.When he was chasing a fat mouse one day, Mrs Prentice put her straw broom in his way and told him to stop chasing the mouse! Cookie wanted to tell Mrs Prentice ...
Ruffy is a lonely little dog who lives by the seaside and sustains himself with scraps from the rubbish bins along the beach car parks.One morning when he decides to beat the heat and take a dip in the ocean, he hears a voice across the water calling for help. He barks as much as he can to try and g...
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Goldie loved her life with Mrs Tilley! The goldfish bowl was right near the window in the lounge room, and Goldie just smiled so much. She was so happy to be living there! Mrs Tilley was very kind. She gave her lots of tasty flakes to eat, rocks and reeds for Goldie to play around and put a cloth ov...
Stretch was a huge, playful, gangly, hungry young giraffe! But he was also nosy, inquisitive, curious and adventurous…his big long neck enabled him to put his nose into places it maybe shouldn’t be put.He lived in a big safari park in South Africa, and every time he strolled past the Lodge kitch...
Smoochie had five sisters and a brother, and he’d lived in a huge forest tree with his mum and dad his whole life! The chatter they made could be heard right across the treetops; so much laughter, games and playtime. But sometimes he would hear his parents getting angry and yelling at each other t...
Luger was a handsome young tiger who, for some reason only known to him, just wasn’t happy with the way he looked! He tried everything he could to change the way he looked! He tried rubbing his stripes off, washing them off, covering them up with mud…because he wanted to look like someone else, ...
Hoops was one fine zebra! He was happy, he was healthy, he was fast, he was handsome…but he looked different to the other zebras…and they noticed.Some of them said things to him that made him feel sad. Instead of his stripes running down his body from top to bottom, they ran across his body from...
Monty saw some young boys playing with matches and lighting a fire in the bush, even though they knew they shouldn’t be doing it!When the fire got worse, and one of the boys, Andy, fell in its path as he tried to escape it, Monty had to quickly take his family to the safety of the river nearby as ...
Doris was a happy and carefree pig, very friendly, curious, and trusting of all the people and animals around her.When approached by a stranger, the local wolf from the woods, Doris didn’t realise he might be dangerous!He first seemed nice and friendly – but Doris soon got a big surprise when hi...
Boris didn’t know the dangers of taking drugs, and he never really thought about drugs until some people suggested he try the fruit of the Marula tree which can cause you to do strange things if you eat it. They made him feel like a weak elephant if he didn’t try it, so Boris said ‘Okay’ eve...
Sometimes in life, the time comes when we want to be the very best we can be, to achieve our goals. Freddy was no exception! He wanted to win a gold medal at the biggest jumping competition in the world, the Frog Olympics.He practised his jumping every day, making sure he was ready with his body and...
When LJ and his friends jumped the neighbour’s fence and started to eat his grass, he was frightened one day by the farmer saying he would get his gun and shoot them if they ever came back and ate his grass again!But a few days later when the herd of kangaroos was hungry again for fresh green gras...
Curly is a young goat who lives on a beautiful farm and loves eating Blueberries!He enjoys walking out through the farm gate and searching for them.His parents had always told him to be careful of cars if he ever went outside his home, but sometimes Curly forgot this life lesson his parents were tea...
Larry lived alone on a pretty farm.She had everything she could want, green grass, cool water, lots of hills to roam, and she could do whatever she wanted each day! But she didn’t have any friends.When a big noisy truck came one day and twenty cows joined her in the paddock, she was overjoyed and ...
Pecker was a happy healthy hen living on a farm with other chooks when she noticed the others didn’t share their food, just jumped in, and ate as much as they could without thinking that some of the smaller and younger chooks might not be getting enough of the food. When a young hen became weak an...
King was a handsome lion who had raised his family like a good father, and he had learnt the meaning of respect in his many years in the jungle.When some younger lions decided they liked all the things that King had gathered in his life, and wanted them for themselves, King had to teach them that yo...
A young rabbit called Sneeze experienced an emotion called ‘fear’ when some hunters fired their guns near his home.His parents realised that he hadn’t felt scared like that ever before, so they spoke to him quietly and warmly, and told him how to handle fear.We will all feel scared some time i...
When we are growing up and hearing mums, dads and teachers talking to us, there are so many other things happening at the same time, like playing and eating. Sometimes, although we hear them talking, we don’t actually listen.Mo heard his father say ‘don’t wander too far away from the farm,’ ...
Francis was just a normal everyday duck. He went to school, he played with his friends, he loved his family and he just loved being a duck!But he got very dirty when he played outside and sometimes, when he came back inside to have lunch or dinner, he forgot to wash himself. Most of the time he was ...
When Robyn’s horse Honey was visited by the vet, he noticed some of Honey’s teeth had been eaten away by germs because she hadn’t been cleaning her teeth properly!When Honey was told she would lose two teeth because they hadn’t been kept clean, she was cross with herself. And then when she h...
Pedro was the youngest member of a wolf pack family.Being the youngest sometimes meant that you don’t get much time from your family because they have so many other things to do, and so you might try to get their attention the wrong way. Pedro’s way was to make up stories about things that weren...
Henry was a young hippopotamus who was growing up in a big thunder of family, friends, and foes, and within their homeland by the water there was always some competition within the herds.When the annual Tree Trunk shove is nearly ready to roll, Henry gets his local hippos together to train them for ...
