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A children's book about bullying written from the child's side.
Most bullying books are written for the adult buying them. They explain what bullying is, name the feelings, and end with the bully apologising. A child in the middle of it does not need the definition — they need to see someone like them get through the week. Custom illustrated, 24 pages, for families, authors or schools. Delivered in 2 weeks.
N° 01What makes it work
The child's week, not the lesson
A bullying book earns its place when the child reading it recognises their own Tuesday in it — the corridor they avoid, the seat they take so they are not last, the thing they stopped telling anyone. Name that first and the child trusts the book. Then the turn matters: not the bully punished, but the moment the child told someone, or one person stood next to them.
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Told from the child's side
The reader is the one it is happening to. The book follows their week, not the adult's explanation of it.
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No tidy punishment
A bully marched off by a teacher teaches that rescue comes from elsewhere. We end on the child's own move — telling someone, or being stood beside.
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The bystander version
Often the more useful book: a child who watched and did nothing, and what it took to step in. Ask us for this one if that is the child you have.
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For Muslim families
Can draw on standing for the wronged and the teaching against slander and abuse — illustrated appropriately, never didactic.
N° 02For schools
One book the whole class can sit inside
Schools commission these for anti-bullying week and PSHE. We keep the characters deliberately non-specific — no named school, no identifiable child — so every child in the room can be the one in the story, including the one doing it.
N° 03For authors
You write the story, we illustrate it
Authors with a completed or draft bullying manuscript can commission us for full illustration — character design, 24 spreads, cover. Bullying scenes need careful staging: we handle the difficult spreads without making them frightening to sit with.
N° 04Investment
Three ways to work together.
Children's book about bullying
$189
24-page hardcover. Original story or author manuscript.
- Original story or illustration of author manuscript
- 24 pages of original painterly illustration
- Hardcover 8×8 binding, full colour
- Character design from reference photo
- Bullied-child, bystander, or bully's-side telling
- Two rounds of revision
- Digital proof before printing
- Free shipping within US, UK, EU on first copy
N° 05Questions
The answers we give most often.
- Told from the bullied child's side or the bully's?
- Usually the bullied child's — that is who is reading it. But the bully's side can be the more useful book when a child needs to recognise their own behaviour without being shamed. We will ask which child it is for.
- Does the bully have to be punished at the end?
- No, and often they should not be. A tidy punishment teaches that someone else fixes it. Ending on the child telling someone, or finding one person who stood beside them, helps more.
- Can it be personalized with a child's name?
- Yes — character built from a reference photo. For a child in the middle of it, seeing themselves come through is the point.
- Can it reference Islamic values?
- Yes — standing for the wronged, and the teaching against slander and abuse, illustrated appropriately.
- Is it suitable for a school?
- Yes — characters kept non-specific so any child in the room can be the one in the story.
- How long does it take?
- Typically 14 days from brief to your door.
Start your book
Make a bullying book.
Tell us who the book is for — the child it is happening to, the one who watched, or the one doing it. We'll reply within two working days.