One of the most captivating CBeebies programmes at the moment is 'The Adventures of Abney & Teal' during the tea-time slot. It's been a part of the schedule for the past year or so and completely captures our imagination; it's often the last programme we watch before the television is turned off (for the screen-free hour before bed) and I think it's a lovely calming programme to end the day with.
Abney and Teal are two of the characters who live on a series of islands, in the middle of a lake in a park in a busy city. They have fun and games, plenty of hijinks with their other friends Neep (a small burrowing creature), Bop (a seal type of creature who lives in the water), the Poc-Pocs (a set of 7 comma-shaped wooden objects or seed creatures), and Toby Dog (a melodeon-playing dog who always sits upright on the same place on the lake's mainland shore).
Now a series of books have been created to accompany the popular television series and we've been sent copies of these books. The most popular one is the interactive book: An Island Adventure which is a pop-in-the-slot book (RRP £7.99). On each page there are a number of slots which cardboard cut-outs of the main characters slot into; there are a number of different cut-outs for each figure in different positions to accommodate the different scenes.
The Boy adoes this book, he loves selecting the different characters and trying them out to make each scene different each time. It's a brilliant book and he's completely engaged in the story, making up additional information.
We were also sent a copy of the other two books in the series: Bop's Hiccups and Brilliant Boots (£5.99 each). Traditional picture story books, they have thick, matt pages rich in colour illustrations throughout. They are currently The Boy's favourite bedtime stories and are read over and over again.
To accompany the new books from Walker Books there are two fantastic beanie toys available which really help make the books and television series interactive. The Boy loves playing with these, acting out the books we've read together; they're currently sat at the end of his bed along with all of his other cuddly toys.
The Adventures of Abney & Teal are a really beautiful set of books which every pre-schooler should have on their bookshelf!
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I loved reading The Water Babies
Noddy – I was Noddy mad.. that and the Magic Roundabout, although I didn't have any MR books
I loved the Shirley Hughes Alfie books.
I loved the Beatrix Potter books!
My auntie bought me the Water Babies and I loved it, wish I had kept it. Also loved the Secret 7 and Famous 5.
Little House series – Can I count all of them? 🙂 ok, maybe The Long Winter (Little House on the Prairie was over hyped!)
I loved The Diddakoi….so much so I named Kizzy after the main character all these years later!
The Silver Sword as an older child and I loved Milly Molly Mandy when younger x
Topsy & Tim books 🙂
The Village with Three Corners. I loved reading these at school.
fungus the bogeyman!
I loved 'My naughty little sister' x
Biff and Chip!
I had a beautiful copy of Cinderella
Lustige Geschichten by Vladimir Sutejew. He's a Russian author, but I don't know, if there's an English translation of this book. I absolutely adored it and my parents even painted my wall with characters from the book – only for me to colour them in with red crayon….
@caro_mad
The hungry catterpiller
The gruffalo
Topsy & Tim books
The Mrs Pepperpot books
Meg and mog books 🙂
I loved the tales of H. C. Andersen.
I loved Dogger by Shirley Hughes when I was small. I was so excited to buy a copy of it for Bud when he was born and we now read it together.
Little Jean and the Bishop!
Grufflao hehe
It had to be Topsy and Tim for me
I liked loads of books when i was little, topsy and tim, meg and mog, and eat up gemma and loads more
beatrix potter books x
The Magic Faraway Tree!
Big topsy and tim fans, oh, and Dogger, gorgeous book, reading it with my 7mo at the moment!
Elizabeth Goudge "The Little White Horse"
Puff the magic dragon 🙂
The Faraway Tree
I adored the Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton. Pure magical escapism, brilliant!
I loved Famous Five and Point Horror when I was a teen x
My little boy loves the Gruffalo 🙂 x
@LilinhaAngel
Alice in Wonderland. I collect copies of it still.
The hungry caterpillar x