Delightful Tales About Difficult Topics’ is a series of books written to facilitate honest & healthy conversations between parents and kids. As the name suggests, the goal of each book will be to make it easier for parents to have open conversations about complex topics, not covered enough within the children’s book genre.

Kim is a mother of two and has a diverse family. Naturally, she began searching for locally produced children’s books that would more accurately reflect the members of her own family. She managed to find a few but not nearly enough and decided to write her own story with a focus on promoting diversity & inclusion, in a South African context.

Graham is a lifelong family friend of Kim’s, a freelance Copywriter and part time woodwork teacher at the Little Warthogs Playschool – run by his wife, an early childhood development specialist. So when Kim pitched her idea of a children’s book series promoting diversity & inclusion, Graham swapped his power tools for a pen & paper.