Jumping Puddles

When someone we love dies, it can be very hard to find the words to explain to others, and ourselves, how we feel. After all, feelings are feelings. They’re not words.

Robbie is a young person who is struggling to voice his feelings. His dad has died, leaving him, his mum and his little sister.

It takes a rainy day and some puddles to unlock the overwhelming emotions that Robbie is feeling.

Jimbo and Bobbins Adventures

Jimbo and Bobbins are field mice from the local park who seem to have a knack for getting themselves into trouble. Bobbins is Jimbo’s sister and loves to go on adventures and often talks Jimbo into going with her. There are lots of times when he wishes he hadn’t.

Jessie and JoJo

Finding it hard to get to sleep?

Ever been afraid of the dark?

Meet Jessie, an eight-year-old girl who is very scared.

Alone in her room at bedtime, Jessie creates a unique way to cope with being frightened and lonely…

Finding a secret magical place, she explores ways to deal with her worries alongside an unusual furry friend.

Imagine that…

Wriggle down and join Jessie and her friend JoJo, as they meet the ‘bother-bugs’ and learn about true friendship.

Jeffery's Dress

There are many ways to be brave and many ways to be proud, and Jeffery wants to be both. He also wants to be true to himself. Jeffery is proud to be honouring his great grandfather’s bravery by wearing his medals and marching in the big parade, but he is also feeling nervous. Jeffery’s father helps him to understand what being brave and proud really means.

Jeffery’s Dress is a heart-warming story that touches on the issues of gender stereotyping and acceptance of differences, in a candid but gentle way. It presents social-emotional learning opportunities for children as they explore the feelings and motivations of themselves and others. The example of unconditional, non-judgemental love of a parent for their child in this story, will give children a sense of warmth, trust and reassurance and help them feel secure in being themselves.

Jeffery’s Dress also connects the freedom that our younger generations have – to be themselves and to be proud of who they are – with our older generations who bravely fought to defend this freedom.

Jee the Ninja Pants Detective

Meet Jee the Ninja Pants Detective. He's a big brother with big responsibilities, solving every mystery he finds, whether it is saving the world or helping line his stomach. Every adventure has a twist and turn that Jee must overcome, and there is always a lesson to be learned.

Jasmine Grace's Party

A spare chair at a birthday party keeps everyone guessing - who will arrive to sit in that chair?

What a surprise it was when the door was flung open and in came....!!

Come and join Jasmine and her friends, and find out who the mysterious guest is.

I’m Fishing With Pop-Pop Today

Rosie wants to catch a BIG fish while fishing with her Pop-Pop. She realizes her Pop-Pop won’t allow her to hold her own fishing pole, bait her own hook, cast her own line, or reel in her own fish. Will Rosie ever get to catch her own BIG fish? Read on to find out in this charmingly illustrated book for children.

It Was Good

Hate crimes involving anti-Semitism, racial bigotry and sexual preferences are growing exponentially in all societies. This book is a simplistic attempt for young minds to understand how hate can be instigated. Through this story, children learn how to overcome prejudice, violence and celebrate each other’s differences. The answer to understanding others is through education starting at a young age. Now more than ever, the subject of this book is badly needed.

In My Little Garden

What’s in the garden – look and see. There’s everything there to make you happy.

This is to say thank you little garden for helping me feel better from pneumonia and the Coronavirus in the spring of 2020 and giving me a lot of pleasure whenever I looked at you.

Impossible

It’s a scary word sometimes, isn’t it? Daunting, crazy even. Sometimes if you look at something, you’ll dismiss it as ‘that’s impossible’, just because it seems too daunting, too crazy.

But is it?

Inside this book is the message of how impossibilities might be conquered if only you look at how you can approach them, how you can push yourself to facing fears, and realising that maybe everything you thought impossible may not actually turn out as thought. You’ll never really know until you try, and the only way you can do that is if you take the risk to do the impossible. Challenge yourself to take the message to heart, complete the impossible, and then, take a look at yourself in a week, a month from reading and then ask,

“Do you say ‘that’s impossible!’ anymore?”

Imagine

This book will make you think twice about everyday things such as buttons, feet, a drop of water, a pumpkin, and an old slipper.

This collection of stories will bring humour to everyday things and help to build your child’s imagination and help it to soar high.

Follow the stories of these amazing everyday things and see their success.

Your child will sleep peacefully knowing everything has a successful end.

Imagine

If I could just imagine,

Imagine what I’d be,

When I have gone all grown up

For all the world to see…

Within this book you and your child will discover the many possibilities that a future can hold for them.

From its uniquely colourful illustrations to its playfully original rhyme, adults and children alike will be captivated by the chance to just imagine.   

First-time author, educator and father of 3, Ben McDermott encourages children and parents alike to share in the joy of reading and that a future is its most brightest when you use your imagination.