Book of the week – Peely Wally by Kali Stileman

This was a favourite book from earlier in the year and so when Luath spied it in the library she quickly put it on the “to check out” pile.  The title makes me smile as in Scotland “peely wally” means pale/ill-looking.

It is a brightly illustrated picture book.  The story is of Peely Wally who has an egg, “which is small, yes, spotty, yes, but absolutely perfect in every way”.  The egg rolls off the branch and you follow it’s adventure (by tracing the lines) as it is helped back to Peely Wally. 

Luath especially loved helping the egg hatch and joining in with the line “small, yes……”
(Luath is 22 months)