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Lory Dory
Brendon O’Neill
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Brendon O’Neill. Illustrator: Sonia Dearling. Designer: Arthur Attwell. Editor: Sarah McGregor.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: Lory Dory (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause at Lory's pictures and invite the child to notice what she chooses to paint. Let them decide what the images suggest before offering your own interpretation.
- Themes
- Being seen and understood: Lory is invisible to others and uses painting to show the person she feels she is inside. The story presents her creative expression as a way of bringing her inner self into view.
- Exclusion and teasing: Other children leave Lory out of games and tease her because they believe she is an imaginary friend. The hurtful behaviour is shown, but the story's broader judgement of the other children is not fully established.
- Worth knowing
- Children tease Lory and leave her out of games. This is a direct social hurt in the story; consider whether a child would like to pause and talk about that scene.