With schools shut and families on lockdown indoors, the coronavirus crisis can be confusing for kids – and that’s why Grufallo illustrator Axel Scheffler has teamed up with experts to create a free book to explain it.
Coronavirus: A Book for Children aims to answer all the burning questions that kids aged five to nine years old will have been pestering parents with over the last few weeks.
The book draws on the knowledge of Professor Graham Medley of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to answer what the virus is, how you catch it, the measures used to tackle it and more to put kids’ minds at rest.
Helping children understand what is going on is an important step in helping them cope and making them part of the story
Scheffler adds the drawings to the digital book, which publisher Nosy Crow has made free to download now.
Staff from the publisher penned the book and also consulted with two head teachers and a child psychologist to help break down the global crisis for youngsters.
Scheffler insisted that it was vital that children “had access to good and reliable information”.