Personalised book about starting nursery routine: your child's Nursery Coat Hook

What happens in your child's Nursery Coat Hook

1. At the nursery door, your child notices a row of low coat hooks.
2. A grown-up shows your child the hook with their little picture.
3. Your child takes off their coat and hangs it up as their first nursery job.
4. After a short goodbye wave, your child heads in for play while the coat waits on its hook.
5. At home time, your child finds the hook again and collects their coat before going home.

How the first page could read

It is nursery morning. Your child stands by the bright door with a small coat zipped to the chin. Inside, there are low tables, familiar-looking toys and a row of hooks. One hook has a little picture beside it. “This one is for you,” says the grown-up.

Your child’s name, look and little details replace these words, and the whole story is written for their age.

Why this story works

This personalised book about starting nursery routine gives a two- or three-year-old one clear, manageable part of the morning to recognise: putting their coat on their own hook. Rather than trying to cover every nursery experience at once, it follows your child from the doorway through a short goodbye, play and home time. The repeated coat-hook detail creates a simple visual marker for the day’s sequence. Parents can add your child's age, little details and chosen adventure while the child is illustrated from one photo. Short, age-appropriate wording leaves room to pause over the pictures and talk about what happens next.

Reading it together

• Read it before a nursery visit, pausing at the coat hook so your child can point to it and name it.
• Practise taking off and hanging up a coat at home, using the story’s simple sequence of coat, hook and goodbye.
• On the nursery morning, remind your child that they can look for their hook again when it is time to go home.

Suggested art style: Storybook watercolour

Soft watercolour keeps the nursery doorway, coat hooks and everyday routine calm and easy to look at together. A sidekick idea: a little robin pictured on the coat-hook label. You can pick any of the four styles and change the details in the form.