Shona Innes

Shona Innes is a nationally recognised forensic and clinical psychologist in Australi, is known for supporting troubled children, young people and their carers, and collaborating with support and protection agencies to address the challenging behaviours that result from complex and criminal situations.
And she accidentally wrote some children’s books….
Some letters, notes and badly drawn pictures that Shona posted off to the children she had seen in sessions have been turned into beautiful picture books, illustrated by Írisz Agócs. The series have made their way around the world. The series has been translated into multiple languages; French, Dutch, Chinese, Romanian, Danish, Hungarian, Persian and Japanese.
The titles deal with emotive issues that children face in direct and gentle terms, allowing children’s feelings and problems to be more easily shared and discussed with family and friends, gently talk about topics that many find emotional. Each of the stories has grown from psychological sessions with children (and sometimes with grown ups) to help them understand and talk about complex emotional situations in simple and gentle ways.