Mr Oakes's Garden

Mr Oakes's Garden is a cross-generational writing experience as a grandma and her grandsoncollaborate on short stories that introduce important life messages bound up with likeablecharacters.

The book helps children to understand life's up and downs through stories about littlegarden creatures.

Each tale explores love and friendships, playing together,bullying, hopes and fears. This book unusually reflects on a strong understanding of the health and socialneeds of children and young people - and is written by an experiencedhealth professional (Anita) and her grandson (Harry), a secondary schoolpupil.

Young children can read the stories with adults and more confidentreaders can start to tackle them alone.