‘How can we communicate taboo topics/ complex problems to today’s society, engaging the younger generation to spark meaningful everyday conversation’.
Through the act of reading to children, I embraced the idea of using narrative to be used as a tool of explaining a complex topic to children.
Reflecting on my own childhood, something that impacted my life massively when I was a child was when I sadly lost my Grandad to Dementia. I took inspiration from this emotive experience to create a illustrated story book called ‘Frank the fish’, which tells a story about a little girl called Lily and her pet goldfish, but includes underlying content of the stages of Dementia within.
