It aims to provide children with essential skills in self-protection from sexual interference. Children need to understand that from a very young age they have rights in relation to their bodies, ...

Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept is a story about a little boy who is sexually interfered with by an authority figure. This is his story and relates how he finds ...

In all honesty, as a teacher, school councillor and mother, I was angry and frustrated that when I bought up the topic of what are we doing to protect our children ...

I see Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept being used mainly in two situations. 1. By parents or carers when they feel their child is ready to hear the ...

Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept can be read by any age group. However, I wrote the book with quite young children in mind, as they are the most vulnerable to ...

As much as you think sexual interference doesn’t happen in your family, or amongst your friends or in your community, it actually can and does. It happens a lot! The Australian ...

I ran into two main problems. The first was finding a publisher and the second was finding an illustrator. I have worked in children’s publishing for half of my ...

My greatest challenge was devising a text that was not confronting and off putting. For the book to be of any value, parents would have to feel comfortable reading it to ...

I have a number of friends currently teaching in primary schools who have told me that while they would love to use Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept in their classrooms, ...