Peata Ruadh (How a young muffin got a colored beak)

Toddlers-Picture Story Books

Author/Publisher
Fiona Hulbert

Format
Paperback

Pages
16 pages

Book Description
Peata Ruadh, the Gaelic for sea bird with a colourful beak, is about a Scottish puffin and how he wants to rush nature to get his colourful beak. Peata explores some very imaginative solutions to his impatience. His Grandpa gently tries to explain that nature cannot be rushed, while teaching Peata Ruadh the real life process. The story deliberately uses examples of rich vocabulary, similes, metaphors and onomatopoeia to help support language development. Peata Ruadh can be enjoyed as a read alone book or equally as a read out loud book. It can also be used as a tool to teach literacy.

Fiona Hulbert was born in Edinburgh. She spent most of her formative years in the Highlands, where her love and connection to the land became deep rooted. She is qualified in Bachelor of Education in Primary Education and spent 22 years teaching 5-11 years olds both in Scotland and Norway, her main interest being language and literacy. She has two children. Her husband is an ecologist and obviously shares her love of the environment. She now lives in Highland Perthshire and keeps a small flock of Hebridean Sheep, bees and hens. She manages a productive kitchen garden and is raising an orchard of traditional Scottish apples. She is still passionate about literacy development.