Mummy Wears Blue Shoes

By Scott Furlong

Emily is five-years-old. She wears pink ballerina shoes and wants to be a ballerina when she grows up. Emily's mummy and daddy are both special police officers called detectives. Lately, Emily has noticed that her mummy hasn't been spending time with her. She has stopped taking her to dancing lessons and her older brother, Jackson, to his rugby lessons. One night, Emily sees her mummy crying on the sofa being comforted by her daddy. At a family meeting Emily learns that her mummy is poorly with something that the doctor calls Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Mummy Wears Blue Shoes is a heart-warming story about a family who are living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is a story written about a family, for families, by a family, by author Scott Furlong with illustrations by his cousin Emma Cahill.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
• Release date: Sep 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781913340711

Scott Furlong

This is the first book for children by former police officer Scott Furlong.

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