This updated edition of this 20-year-old bestselling title, with consultants from Mencap, enables parents to help their children explore questions about concerns about disability in a simple and reassuring way. It challenges the stereotypes that are often formed during childhood.

Notes for parents and teachers at the back of the book provide valuable advice for how to share this book with your child or class.

Written by a trained psychotherapist, journalist and parent, and illustrated by an experienced children’s book artist, this title is part of an acclaimed and successful series of picture-book non-fiction for Early Years. Books in the series give advice and promote interaction between children, parents, and teachers on a wide variety of personal, social and emotional issues. They are excellent tools for teachers to use during classroom discussions.