Suitabook
Walking Together
Jade Mathieson Duckitt
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Jade Mathieson Duckitt. Illustrator: Louwrisa Blaauw. Designer: Bianca de Jong. Editor: Elise Varga.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: Walking Together (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause at the clinic pages to name the checks shown and invite questions; avoid promising that every visit is the same. Afterwards, enjoy spotting details in the journey together.
- Themes
- Care and companionship: An adult and child walk together, the adult comforts the child during the storm and clinic visit, and the story ends with bedtime care. The repeated closeness and reassuring words present companionship as supportive in this particular journey.
- Clinic visits and health: The child has their throat, lungs and ears checked, has blood pressure measured, receives medicine and returns home. The scenes give a child-facing account of some checks and medicine, with reassurance; they do not set out a general guide to treatment.
- Worth knowing
- Storm clouds bring a brief prompt to be brave, and the clinic scene asks whether the visit feels scary. The adult’s reassurance may invite discussion if check-ups feel worrying to your child.