SuitabookBusy Beaver
Nicholas Oldland
- Reading
- Read together and pause to consider how the beaver’s actions affect other animals. Invite your child to notice what changes when he begins acting with greater care.
- Themes
- Taking responsibility: The beaver acts carelessly, sees the effects on the forest and its animals, then reflects and tries to make things right. The story presents changing one’s behaviour and caring for others as worthwhile; the animals’ delighted surprise follows the beaver’s efforts to improve things.
- Worth knowing
- The forest damage includes injured and homeless animals; a falling tree is the turning point that prompts the beaver to reflect.