Ella's Silly Hat Adventure!
Ages 2–7 Set in Meru National Park
Ella's Silly Hat Adventure is a Kenyan children's picture book set in Meru National Park — a bright, warm story about valuing experiences over things, for ages 2 to 7.
Ella is a young elephant in Meru National Park with a great love of hats and a sudden brilliant idea. She picks up her megaphone and calls across the park: it is Silly Hat Day — come one, come all!
Her friends arrive in their finest. Ella wears leaves and bright flowers. Leo the lion has twigs and berries tucked into his mane. Gina the giraffe sports colourful feathers. Zara the zebra turns up in a hat woven from tall grass. They laugh and dance and admire one another all morning.
Then a gust of wind sweeps every single hat away, and no one can catch them.
It takes Wise Old Owl, watching from the branches above, to point out what they have actually lost — and what they still have. The hats were delightful. But it was the making and the laughing that made the day.
A bright, warm story about valuing experiences over possessions, with four activities at the back: a matching game, a maze, a word puzzle and a page of hats to colour in.
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