Nana's Book Library

Age 3+

Particulars (Out of 5)

• Sweet animal friends *****
• Exciting fold-outs including a maze and the best tree house ever ***** 
• Surprises in every story ***** 
• Positive role models *****  
• Inappropriate language:  None.  
• Sexual references:  None.  

Reminder:  Nana’s Books are rated G.  Anyone could read them, or listen to them being read aloud.

Anyone would be happy to spend time in Percy’s Park, and this lovely book from England has a whole year’s worth of stories – one for each season!  Such a sweet, happy book!  Our first story, “One Snowy Night,” takes place in winter.  It’s cold outside.  Despite his winter coat and scarf and two pairs of woolly socks inside his wellington boots, Percy is cold!  But the little hut where he lives is nice and warm.  Just as Percy is getting ready for bed, someone knocks at the door:  it’s a very cold squirrel!  Then come two shivering rabbits, a fox, a badger, two ducks, a hedgehog and a whole family of mice!  Percy makes room for all of them, including a tiny mole who tunnels in from underneath the floor, surprising everyone!

“The Secret Path” takes place in the spring.  Percy and his friends take turns surprising each other in a giant hedge maze.   It’s summer in “The Rescue Party,” when everyone leaps into action to save a baby rabbit who falls down an old well.  The surprise here is how the little rabbit saves herself!  In “After the Storm,” it’s autumn and oh, no!  Terrible winds have knocked down the great big oak tree, where many of Percy’s friends live.  Nothing for it:  they must all work together to find a new place for the animals to live, and boy, do they ever find a great home!  The best treehouse ever!

The illustrations are wonderful, and the fold-outs have a lot to see.  My kids loved looking at them, especially the detail of the giant tree house.  

This book is available used on Amazon, eBay, Abebooks, and other used book sites.  The individual stories are also available as bundled separates along with two other stories, but at a higher price.  I encourage you to shop around.  Although there are always outliers (used books with ridiculously inflated prices), most of the used copies of A Year in Percy’s Park I saw were around ten dollars or less.  Several for $8.62, for some reason.  

©Janet Farrar Worthington

Note:  I am an Amazon affiliate, so if you do click a link and buy a book, I will theoretically make a small amount of money, but I’m just starting this thing, so I don’t even know how that works.   Still, full disclosure, etc.