FunReads4Kids

FunReads4Kids Author/speech pathologist with a passion for children's literacy & creating fun educational books

Spent today hanging out with WA Authors and Illustrators. Experienced being part of my first WIP critique group. Was fee...
06/06/2026

Spent today hanging out with WA Authors and Illustrators.

Experienced being part of my first WIP critique group. Was feeling a little vulnerable leading into the group but really appreciated the feedback I received and was relieved to hear my rhyme and meter were on point as I’ve been working hard on honing my skills there! Now to do some edits of my new manuscript 😊

And thanks to all the info and insights shared by and

05/06/2026

Authors love doing events, incursions, and workshops. I’ve got quite a few bookings prior to, after, and during Book Week so I thought I better get started on my prep as it’s very time consuming and fiddly.

Today I’ve managed to prepare a third of my kits. So I feel like that’s a decent start. I don’t want to be up til midnight the night before each event prepping!

Are you a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of person or like to feel organised and plan ahead of time?

04/06/2026

So grateful for upcoming author events.

As a fledgling author, I’ve got to say it’s hard to make a living! Whilst my book is well-loved when it is read, getting it out there is the challenging part! So having regular author events to participate in, helps to keep me going and give me a platform to share information I’m passionate about around literacy for young children.

And you can help support Aussie authors in some simple ways:

💥Send me a photo of your child reading my book if you are happy for me to share on socials (and please let me know if you want their face covered)

💥Like, share, comment on my posts

💥Follow me if you find my content helpful (my info posts are on the plain posts scattered throughout my grid)

💥Send my posts onto anyone with a child aged 2-8 years

💥Buy my book to gift to a child (signed copies are available via my website and bookstores can order via my distributor )

💥Have a read by borrowing from your local library

And finally, a huge thank you to everyone who has supported me so far 🙏🏻

I’d Rather Eat Chocolate is a fun story that invariably stimulates conversations around healthy foods and sometimes food...
01/06/2026

I’d Rather Eat Chocolate is a fun story that invariably stimulates conversations around healthy foods and sometimes foods.

When I was grocery shopping recently, I passed the cooking aisle and couldn’t help but notice this packet cake. I don’t know about you, but I generally bake cakes with ingredients like flour, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, cacao, milk/buttermilk (and ok, red colouring for red velvet cake or maybe puréed beetroot). But get a load of these ingredients including:
🧪fat reduced cocoa (really??)
🧪propylene glycol esters of fatty acids
🧪mono and di-glycerides of fatty acids
🧪sodium stearoyl lactate
🧪modified corn starch 1422 (can’t be good when a number enters the picture)
🧪sodium carboxymethylcellulose

But it must be good for us because there are NO ARTIFICIAL COLOURS 🤣

We all need a treat sometimes (and I’m never opposed to a square of chocolate or two or three…) but is this even food? Sounds like a concoction for a science experiment 😱. Your thoughts??

Research shows that children are more likely to be readers if they see us reading for enjoyment as an adult. And yet Aus...
31/05/2026

Research shows that children are more likely to be readers if they see us reading for enjoyment as an adult.

And yet Australia Reads (National Survey 2021) revealed that 25% of Aussie adults surveyed had not read a single book (in any format) in a year, with 42% of adult readers only reading approximately 3-4 books per year.

So if we want our children to be readers, it might be worthwhile thinking how we can incorporate reading for fun into our own lives as parents - just 5-10 mins/day can be enough.

If you knew that reading in front of your children could influence their own reading behaviour, would you endeavour to read more? Or is it one more thing that you just can’t squeeze into an already hectic life?

29/05/2026

POV: Reading books every day is just as important as eating veggies.

And of course when you’re reading a fun rhyming story that inspires your child to eat up their veggies, that’s a win-win!! Wouldn’t you agree?

Do you provide your child with opportunities to scribble? (Uhm but maybe not on the walls 😳) One of the things I love ab...
28/05/2026

Do you provide your child with opportunities to scribble? (Uhm but maybe not on the walls 😳)

One of the things I love about reading ‘I’d Rather Eat Chocolate’ with children, is the opportunity to inspire children with their own writing.

Young children will start off with scribbling, and it’s fascinating to watch the progression over time from scribbles, to representations of objects, to the formation of letter-like markings, and then onto letters and words.

Even before then, children can be involved in creative writing. I used to love how my boys would dictate stories and letters for me to write down.

Is writing and sending a letter a lost art? What do you think?

It’s always fun being part of the National Simultaneous Storytime initiative. A gorgeous group of children attended, wit...
27/05/2026

It’s always fun being part of the National Simultaneous Storytime initiative. A gorgeous group of children attended, with Paint Wanneroo REaD volunteers adding their passion for reading with children to the event.

And I was blown away when one of the volunteers came up to me after I finished reading Luna Roo to let me know she had met me years ago. I was the speech pathologist who saw her young son and recognised the severity of his language disorder and provided all the necessary assessments to have him successfully gain a place in LDC. His mum said his literacy and language skills were in the normal range by 9 years and he’s now at university.

Is there any better story than that?!

My incursions are not just about reading I’d Rather Eat Chocolate and engaging children in a craft activity. We also:🥕 t...
25/05/2026

My incursions are not just about reading I’d Rather Eat Chocolate and engaging children in a craft activity. We also:
🥕 talk about sometimes foods and healthy foods (you should hear some of the kids’ answers to my question ‘What would happen if we ate chocolate all the time?’ 😳🤣)
🥁 we explore rhyming and syllables (kids love using my bongo drums to tap out syllables)
👨‍🌾 one of the favourite parts is the children re-telling my story using dress-up props and veggies (lots of gross motor, verbal memory, usually some giggles and some ‘oohs and ahs’ from any parents present as the kids look so cute)

If you haven’t experienced one of my incursions yet, ask your library, childcare centre, homeschool group or school (Perth surrounds) to book me in!

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