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Books featuring geese

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ChildrenOfRuin · 15/01/2024 19:50

Bit of a random one, but DC3 (7) has developed a sudden obsession with geese and is demanding bedtime stories featuring geese.

We have books with hens and ducks in, but none with geese in.

Could anyone recommend any children’s books with geese in?

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ChildrenOfRuin · 17/01/2024 07:22

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 16/01/2024 19:12

Not sure if anyone has mentioned but if you have a Nintendo switch in the family there is the Untitled Goose Game. You are a goose and have to go around doing naughty things 😁Dd8 finds it hilarious.

My older DC have this game 🤣

I suspect it’s partly to blame for DC3’s sudden interest in geese 🤣

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Mybestusername · 16/01/2024 19:37

Gerda the Goose

Gerda The Goose amzn.eu/d/669m5GT

ShipshapeShore · 16/01/2024 19:23

My DC like The Flight of the Snow Goose by Deborah King. It's about migration and written in poem style which is lovely and soothing for bedtime.

I'm quite a fan of geese too - I love to see them flying in formation honking away!

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 16/01/2024 19:12

Not sure if anyone has mentioned but if you have a Nintendo switch in the family there is the Untitled Goose Game. You are a goose and have to go around doing naughty things 😁Dd8 finds it hilarious.

MargaretThursday · 16/01/2024 19:09

Is "The Wheel on the School" a goose? Can't remember.

mathanxiety · 16/01/2024 16:20

Toulouse: the Story of a Canada Goose, by Priscilla (?) Cummings might appeal. I think it's long out of print but you might find an old copy online.

IlonaRN · 16/01/2024 16:17

The Snow Goose

mathanxiety · 16/01/2024 16:17

The Duck and Goose books by Tad Hill might be a little juvenile but they're very charming.

AdaColeman · 15/01/2024 20:45

Terry Deary's The Goose Guards, part of his Roman Tales series, it's a retelling of the legend of the sacred Capitoline geese, and how they saved Rome.

Flamesatmytoes · 15/01/2024 20:25

timtam23 · 15/01/2024 20:12

Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose by Julia Donaldson. It's a lovely rhyming text with great illustrations by Nick Sharratt

I was going to suggest this one. Lots of opportunity for funny voices, nice and simple language for younger children.

Cotswoldmama · 15/01/2024 20:25

Judith kerr The other Goose was one of my boys favourites

Evenstar · 15/01/2024 20:24

Gordon in Charge is quite funny and about a goose and a goat both called Gordon who are very bossy

Books featuring geese
StillNoFuckingEyeDeer · 15/01/2024 20:22

Laura Wall has a series of picture books about Goose.

PerkingFaintly · 15/01/2024 20:19

Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose, of course.

But it's very sad and from what I remember, age 7 would be the very bottom of its reading age. Although a lot might go over DC's head, which would be fine.

timtam23 · 15/01/2024 20:14

timtam23 · 15/01/2024 20:12

Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose by Julia Donaldson. It's a lovely rhyming text with great illustrations by Nick Sharratt

Probably a bit young for a 7 year old though, apologies I misread their age

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ChildrenOfRuin · 15/01/2024 20:13

There’s some great starting points, thank you all!

We do have a copy of Jack and the Beanstalk, but unfortunately in the version we have, the goose has been replaced with a hen 🙄

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timtam23 · 15/01/2024 20:12

Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose by Julia Donaldson. It's a lovely rhyming text with great illustrations by Nick Sharratt

VillageLite · 15/01/2024 20:11

Yes, Dick King Smith!
The Swoose is about a half goose half swan.

JMSA · 15/01/2024 20:03

That's a very cute obsession Grin

I'd also be tempted to print off some real life goose stories. He'd probably find it hilarious that they make good guard 'dogs'!

onetwothreeee · 15/01/2024 20:03

Silly Suzy Goose
Look out Suzy Goose

MadamWillYouTalk · 15/01/2024 20:03

I was also going to suggest a Dick King-Smith one, The Cuckoo Child, I loved it when I was young.

CluelessPadme · 15/01/2024 20:00

Oh and there are a couple of Dick King Smith books with geese but I can’t remember what ages they’re for

CluelessPadme · 15/01/2024 20:00

Charlotte’s Web would be great for that age; the geese are very funny

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