When Harry Stayed Home: A Child's Perspective of Lockdown

A charming, moving and touchingly simple story about the COVID-19 lockdown written from a child's perspective. Helps parents talk to their children about lockdown, Coronavirus and the vaccine in a child friendly way.

Kat Arksey, mum of two young boys and social worker, took the opportunity during the latest lockdown to write her debut short children's book from the eyes of a child. She wrote the story to help her eldest son, aged 4, understand more about why we're all having to stay at home and why his school is closed. As soon as the news was announced in January 2021 of another UK lockdown and school closures,

Kat decided to write a short children's book drawing on her 11-year experience of working with children and families. The story is aimed at young children, and follows two brothers that are staying at home and homeschooling due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

Written from the eyes of a child, the book aims to help other parents and young children talk about the virus, lockdown, what the vaccine means, and how things will get back to normal, in a positive, child-friendly way.

As the blurb states: 'Harry and his brother are spending a lot of time at home lately. There are fun times to be had at home but it feels sad to be away from the people we love and places that are important to us. Harry learns more about why everyone is staying at home and how things will get better soon.'