A storybook series · Grades 1 and 2

The Seven Wonderlands

A library book with unfinished pictures opens onto seven lands, and helping each one paints its picture back in.

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Book 1: The Garden That Forgot Its Colours · Grades 1 and 2

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!"

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Books in this series

  1. Book 1: The Garden That Forgot Its Colours · Grades 1 and 2 · English · العربية

Meet the world

One afternoon a book on the library shelf has seven small stars on its cover, none of them shining. Its pictures are unfinished: pencil lines and patches of bare paper where the paint stops. A tiny paper door is drawn on the first page, and a small golden key drops out of it.

In each land something has gone wrong where the painting stops: a garden's colours have gone missing, a lake's moon is in pieces. When your child helps, that part of the picture paints itself in, and one more star on the cover shines.

Each land gives a small paper piece with one stroke of paint from the next land on it, so every book ends with a look at where the next one goes.

Who is in it

  • Tansy: a tiny flower fairy with a dandelion paintbrush that does not quite work.
  • The Rose: prickly and proud, and she knows why the garden went quiet.
  • The folk of each land: animals, flowers and birds who are inventive, funny, stubborn and brave. Nobody is a villain.
  • The golden key: opens what is not finished yet, never a lock to keep someone out.
  • Your child's Pet: notices the strange thing first, and in each book learns one new thing alongside your child.
  • The hero: your child, by name, or Noor if they would rather.

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What the series practises

  • Noticing, asking and checking a first idea
  • Helping someone by finding out what they need
  • One true thing about the natural world in every book, kept apart from the story's magic
  • Each book lists the sources its facts come from

Ways to do it

  • On their own, with their Pet
  • With a grown-up beside them
  • With someone far away, on a call

Each book's page says what it practises and where its facts come from:

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