About
A Smattering of Stories by Chris GathercoleHi,
what you see in these pages is a much belated consequence of a very enjoyable year of bedtime stories improvised by one dad and two sons, aged 4 and 7.
The stories may not make sense to anyone outside my family, but I’ve set some of the less convoluted ones down here as a resource for anyone who would like to try them out on their own children.
The stories fall into a couple of themes:
- The Moose & Goose Stories, for ages 4-11, ish. Problem solving.
- The Gray Parrot Stories, for younger ones, say, 3-6, ish. Convoluted solutions.
Please read them out to your kids, collaborate with them to mess about vigorously with the details. Get them involved. This was kind of the original point of publishing them.
Assorted writing followed, including some made up nonsense arising from a delayed train commute home, and most recently, some games.
If you have any feedback on how the stories pan out under battle conditions, do please let me know.
- Chris Gathercole (LinkedIn, Twitter)
Copyright
All content on this site is by Chris Gathercole and licensed under a Creative Commons, ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-SHAREALIKE 4.0 INTERNATIONAL License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
You are free to copy, adapt, and share this work as long as you attribute stories.upthebuzzard.com, don’t use it commercially, and share any derivatives under the same terms.
To the best of my knowledge all images used on this site are (or were) free for non-commercial re-use, and have been attributed in the post where they appear. Any non-attributed images are my own.
P.S., many thanks to Cory Doctorow for responding to an email out of the blue from a complete stranger who had some questions about his Creative Commons philosophy, and pointing out some useful articles to said stranger.
