Website news
Make the Valley yours: a different sound adventure in every book
Record a splash, a chirrup or a birthday puff. Each of the eleven adventures now has its own illustrated sound prompts, ready for your child’s voice.
NOTES FROM THE ROOST
News & reading ideas.
A new adventure to try. A small pause to share. Little discoveries from around the Valley.
A LITTLE IDEA FOR NEXT TIME
Coming in October.
We’re planning a small reading idea each Wednesday: making one sound together, counting everyone home, a quiet bedtime moment, and finding another way to help.
Next planned note · October 7
One picture. One homemade sound.
Reading ideas
Six pictures, two ways to colour
Follow the numbers or choose your own colours, then download a blank drawing for crayons at home. Meet the six pictures in the Colouring Roost.
Inside the stories
One big cake, one little wish
Waffle’s birthday brings everyone to the River. Try a few small pauses for the enormous cake, the wish, and asking Maple for help.
Website news
The Roostlings Valley is now a playable 3D adventure
Explore the Roostlings Valley with four helping teams. Pull a cart, find a lamb, lift a lamp and fetch a rope in a gentle browser game.
Reading ideas
Reading Roostlings together: five small pauses for story time
Five simple ways to share Roostlings with children ages 3–5: notice the picture, choose a team, wait for an answer and count everyone home.
Inside the stories
Kite Says No: a story-time conversation about asking and listening
In Kite Says No, Hana listens when flying feels wrong for Kite. Explore the story’s different ways to help, with a few gentle reading prompts.
About these notes
Notes from the Roost is our family’s little notebook: new things to try in the Valley, ideas for reading together, and discoveries from the adventures by Lars & Luc. All made for little explorers ages 3–5 and the grown-ups beside them.
Published dates show when a note first appeared. Updated dates mark a later revision, so you can see what’s new.
Behind the Valley is a toddler with a head full of stories and a dad helping him bring them to life. Read more about the stories and creative process.