A collaborative, idea-led picture book about children imagining and planning a better world. It offers hopeful prompts around kindness, environmental responsibility, safety and inclusion, while inviting children’s own ideas into the conversation.
Children’s answers shape the book, and 15 children plan a We Can festival containing ideas for improving the world.FavourableFavourable: the book presents this theme approvingly or positively.Favourable: the book presents this theme approvingly or positively.
How the book presents it: Children’s participation is presented as meaningful and capable of contributing to kinder, greener and safer communities.
Talk about: Does the book leave room for disagreement, limits or ideas that are not adopted?
Inclusion and disability representation
Disabled children contributed to the project, and the illustrations include details requested by children, including a wheelchair-user on a swing.FavourableFavourable: the book presents this theme approvingly or positively.Favourable: the book presents this theme approvingly or positively.
How the book presents it: The book presents inclusion as part of the world children want and gives disabled children a stated role in shaping representation.
Talk about: How fully do the story and illustrations show different disabled children’s experiences and perspectives?
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Why It May Be Worth Reading
Its strongest offering is participation: children’s views are presented as central rather than incidental. The book may help families notice how illustrations and plans can make inclusion visible, including disabled children’s experiences.
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What Deserves Attention
Some families may want to discuss whether the proposed changes feel achievable, who gets heard when communities plan together, and how inclusion is shown rather than assumed. The book’s full range of suggestions is not detailed.
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A Conversation Worth Having
Which idea in the festival would your child most like to try, and what might need to change first? If the book shows different viewpoints, ask whose idea is missing or less visible.
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Reading Approach
Read it together, pausing to examine the children’s plans and illustration details. Choose one idea to explore as a family, while distinguishing the book’s hopeful proposals from promises about what will happen.
Confidence & Basis
Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.
What remains unconfirmed
Children’s agency and collective action: Some details of this treatment remain unclear.
Inclusion and disability representation: Only one illustrative example and broad claims about inclusion are provided; the wider representation cannot be assessed.
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