The most beautiful sound to a child

We believe the most beautiful sound in a child's ear is their parents voice

At Way Things Were we believe that it's time to put away your phones, stop the cgi and go back to hand drawn lovingly created stories

Images are placeholders only. Real images are all hand drawn original art.

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News

Way Things Were is 60 books, launching as 275 physical books on Amazon KDP.

The first tranche is coming soon mid november 2024

  • Read to me rhyming books (age 18 month to 4)
  • Colouring books, (age 2 years to 5)
  • I can read books, (age 5-8)
  • Affordable compendiums of 5 stories in 1,
  • Affordable compendiums of 20 books in 1

Way Things Were

Classic tales where princesses are beautiful, princes are hero's and the baddie always fails

Who Are We?

Concerned parents, who want to take our own children back to a time, the way things were