Happy holidays from everyone at Tiny Owl! We hope you’re all having a lovely, restful break.
The winter school holidays are a great time for children to relax and enjoy sharing a good book with their families. To give you some inspiration, we’d like to share a poem, ‘Picture-books in Winter’ by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Summer fading, winter comes—
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs
Window robins, winter rooks,
And the picture story-books.
Water now is turned to stone
Nurse and I can walk upon;
Still we find the flowing brooks
In the picture story-books.
All the pretty things put by,
Wait upon the children’s eye,
Sheep and shepherds, trees and crooks,
In the picture story-books.
We may see how all things are,
Seas and cities, near and far,
And the flying fairies’ looks,
In the picture story-books.
How am I to sing your praise,
Happy chimney-corner days,
Sitting safe in nursery nooks,
Reading picture story-books?
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