We had such a great day at Storybook Land, that i had to do a short write up about it. It's a perfect place for little toddlers because the rides are mostly mini versions of the real stuff. (Yes, they have a roller coaster for small kids too!! - see photo and caption below). Queues were fairly short maybe because we went in Spring. And unlike places like Disneyland, you actually get to walk around freely with no shoulder to shoulder bumping, worrying your kid might go missing.
Recently, bedtime stories for Shane have been the traditional stories that I borrowed from the public library. His favourite ones so far are: the 3 little Pigs (he just loves the wolf), Goldilocks and the 3 bears and the Little Red Riding Hood. So when I chanced upon an advertisement on for Storybook Land during winter, I had to go look it up. They were selling early bird tickets at that time and so we bought 3 tickets! We (rather it was more of I) have been very excited to go there during the Spring before the summer crowd kicked in.
Storybook Land
Egg Harbour, New Jersey
Storybook land comprises of many of these classic (dark dark) stories made into rides or life displays (ok, maybe my description isn't really all that good. I will let the pictures tell you more. See caption!
Mother Goose - the 'mother' author of all the fairy tales and nursery rhymes - stands to the left of the entrance of Storybook land.
Signage was awesome. But the place was small enough to figure out where you've been and not. (Though I was really hunting down 3 little pigs. I saw them from afar but simply could not find them. Maybe they were hiding in their brick house, or maybe not)
This here is Mary's Little Lamb (more like a sheep). But her fleece was not really white as snow.
Hickory Dickory Dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, the mouse ran down.... (Can you spot the mouse???)
The Tick Tock Clock - no idea what the nursery rhyme for this is.
Battle of the peacocks!
Yes this place was like a zoo too. It had peacocks. I couldn't resist not posting the photos of these 2 peacocks. Wonder who won over the peahen.
A car ride! Even our barely 4 month old baby Jed got his first ride at a theme park.
Alice in Wonderland... Shane was so excited to go down the rabbit hole!
This was down the rabbit's hole
Off with his head!!! Running out of the maze away from the queen!
In a giant spinning teacup
And there they saw sleeping beauty and prince charming (who looked more like Pinocchio). For each display, there is usually a story being read out... complete with sound effects too!
This is where sleeping beauty lived
No theme park is complete without a train ride. This is the little blue engine that could
Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle. The Cow Jump over the Moon. I think this is the first time where someone invented the cow jumping over the moon. Because it also appeared in Shane's Goodnight Moon book.
This photo is specially for Kai. Get your mommy to bring visit kor kor Shane, and Aunty will bring you here (and diggerland too)
Watching the trains go by...
Luckily it was a chilly day... otherwise Mr Snowman would have melted
Tommy Tittlemouse didn't know how to read signs....
A castle with some goose running around... Maybe it was where Rapunzel lived?
Hey diddle diddle... the cat lost his fiddle. So he got a ukulele instead.
Had to take a photo of this roller because it was the same one from his book.
Shane's first roller coaster ride on Bubbles Coaster!
Bubbles Coaster
There's billy goat up there....
Feeding the random deers...
On the Candy Cane Express
Jack & the beanstalk (that bounces??)
That's my little Dopey
Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs.
hi-hoe-hi-hoe it's home from work we go hi hoe hi hoe...
Cinderella's Pumpkin... She must have rode in it during Halloween.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall... Humpty Dumpty had a great fall...
Jack & Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, then they went down the slide...
Moby Dick the infamous Whale
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater had a wife but couldn't keep her. He put her into a shell and there he kept her very well (oh so dark)
There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked six pence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse, and they all lived together in a crooked crooked house.
There's the crooked house
Inside the crooked house...
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn't know what to do. So she gave them some broth, without any bread, and she whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed
There's all the kids whom she whipped and sent them to bed.
No idea what the Merry Miller is... I only know a Ren Miller and a Kai Miller.
Finally found the 3 little pigs just before we left Storybook land.... They came out of their break house to say bye bye.
