The Singing Trolls

By Ellis Janzon

This interactive book aims to encourage children’s imagination and interpretation through thoughtful questions and drawing prompts. Designed to be read aloud, it will stimulate parent-child bonding and build fond memories. Studies show reading aloud cultivates future readers.

The story explores the wonders of nature and the interconnections between animals, insects, and plants. It sparks a mindfulness of the natural world and a curiosity to explore outdoors. Through imaginative play with natural materials, children gain a deeper appreciation of nature’s gifts. This sharing of ideas strengthens not only language skills but also emotional intelligence. So curl up together and dive into the magic of nature through the pages of this keepsake book.

Furthermore, the book hopes to spread joy. As children create their own continuations of the story, their imagination sparks even more delight.

Few things are more wonderful than hearing a child’s laughter and seeing the joy in their eyes. Reading aloud facilitates quality time and deepens the mutual bonds between child and caregiver. This book aims to create space for such magical shared moments.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: May 24, 2024
• ISBN: 9781035835195

Ellis Janzon

Ellis Janzon is a retired Assistant Professor and academic teacher in public health who now lives near the sea and forest. Nature inspired the writing of this book. It aims to develop young children’s understandings about the joy of being in nature and inspiring them by what it has to offer. It also aims to teach children about healthy eating and showing kindness to all animals. Most of all, this book hopes to spread joy, and that by reading to their child, the reader and child build joyful memories together.

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Ellis Janzon is a retired Assistant Professor and academic teacher in public health who now lives near the sea and forest. Nature inspired the writing of this book. It aims to develop young children’s understandings about the joy of being in nature and inspiring them by what it has to offer. It also aims to teach children about healthy eating and showing kindness to all animals. Most of all, this book hopes to spread joy, and that by reading to their child, the reader and child build joyful memories together.

Copyright © Ellis Janzon 2024

The right of Ellis Janzon to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.

Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.

ISBN 9781035835188 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781035835195 (ePub e-book)

www.austinmacauley.com

First Published 2024

Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd®

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Canary Wharf

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E14 5AA

To my grown son with a smile back in time.

Thank you to my friends and family members, my-brother-in-law David Hill, former naval pilot and to David’s daughter Claire Hill, working in university administration, who together undertook the language revision since English is their mother tongue.

Table of Content

Preface

1. The Singing- Trolls and Their World

2.Throwing Waste in the Nature Can be Dangerous

3. The Accident

4. Grandmother Snowberry’s Visit

5. Cousin Cress, Why He Was Called that Name, and How He Aired the Turtles

6. The Celebration Party and Minette-Mini-Mouse’s Whipped Cream Adventure

7. Evening in the Singing Troll’s Tree

8. Afterword

Preface

The idea, to write this book, came from the time where the author herself had a small child who loved a goodnight story. The little family spend some vacation weeks every year in the South of France. There were no books to read from. Therefore, instead the imagination was used to, together with the child, create stories. This book is inspired by those stories, though they are not quite the same.

The book is about nature, friendship between animals, insects, and plants. It is also about the importance of keeping a good mood in general, but also when there are duties and tasks to be done. Furthermore, to enjoy them, and have fun at the same time. Hopefully, the book can be used to spread joy and interest for being together with nature as well as give the child some knowledge about it. Perhaps also, when the book is read, stimulate the child’s creativity to draw pictures about what it was told, and maybe create a continuity of the story by itself.

There are not much more wonderful than to hear a child laugh, and see the joy in its eyes, it just gives the best of the mutual quality time, when reading together, and talking about images and text, a common free space, and a bond are formed, between the person that reads and the child. Thereby, also memories are formed for both. A child who is used to be read for, will in the future also be more interested in reading itself. That is scientifically proven.

About the text

The marked text, in the book, are questions for the child to answer. Please, give the child plenty of time to reflect and answer, to sing and hum, since it is important to involve it.

The rhymes/songs can be hummed as one pleases. Since that also gives room for the imagination and creativity.

I would like to suggest, letting the child/children draw pictures of what it/they have heard in between the readings. The quality of their drawings is not important. It is only important that they are prised for its effort. The empty pages at the end of the book are suggested to be used by the child after the book is finished.

Then again after a few days, let the child read aloud the pictures in the book, for the reader, inclusive its own drawings.

Why not save the book? It might in the future be fun to show it to the child/children. Then it/they can see how it/they, as a small child, drew and perhaps wrote. It might evoke pleasant mutual memory.

1. The Singing-Trolls and Their World

Once upon a time there were a cluster of olive trees in a park called the China Park far away in a country called France.

On the front side, you can see the three trolls that this book is about:

Blueberry, Carrot and Tomato. That were their names, odd you might think, but there was a good reason for their names.

On the picture you can see that they had big soft ears that they heard so very well with. They also had good sniffing noses. With the help of those two senses, they both heard very well and could smell, on long distance, all the smells and noises in the wood.

The trolls’ coloured hair was as stiff as scrubbing brushes or like hedgehogs. That was extremely good, since no dangerous big birds or anything else could come and snatch them. If they tried, they would stab themselves on the troll’s hair. Another good thing about their stiff hair was, that in case they fell down a tree or something, they did not hurt their head, since their hair was as strong as bicycle helmets. Only one thing was a little troublesome about the hair, and it could be quite troublesome. It was to put on their soft woollen nightcaps that they sometimes wore on cold nights.

The trolls were very agile, almost like small monkeys. They were good at climbing trees and jump between the branches. Also, they were very skilled with their hands to create and work with many things. Other than that, they were fun, creative, and very active.

The three young trolls that you can see on the front page were brothers and lived in the same tree in their respective caves. There were many other trolls in the family, but they lived in other trees, a