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CREATING MEANINGFUL CHILDREN’S STORIES

that entertain, educate & inspire actions towards a kinder world

Virtual School Visit Testimonial: Thank you so much to the amazing Early Years team at GEMS WEK for their kinds words and for organising a fantastic series of storytime workshops with their youngest learners. I very much enjoyed sharing my stories wi

🇦🇪Teachers, librarians—I’ve got something for you…🇦🇪

With schools reopening but large assemblies still tricky, celebrating World Book Day will likely feel a little different this year.

That’s why I created pre-recorded

World Book Day is just around the corner (23rd April) and what better way to celebrate than bringing a real, published author straight to your students?

With schools currently online, I’m offering pre-recorded author visits that you can drop

Spotted in the wild - 🌳 A Tree for Everyone on the shelves of Ireland’s oldest bookshop @hodgesfiggis in Dublin!

Pic courtesy of my dear friend Elli ❤️Happy Friday everyone.

A Tree for Everyje - written by me, with beautiful art by @scrimmle

A FREE VIRTUAL WORKSHOP & TEACHING PACK

Happy Monday dear teachers and little readers,

Since I can’t visit your schools in person at the moment, I’ve created a FREE 12-minute virtual school visit for your pupils, now available to w

Excited to see ‘A Tree for Everyone’ in this great selection of Spring and Easter titles in their latest issue of @nurseryworldmagazine

Thank you Meg Barclay, for your lovely review.

#atreeforeveryone #picturebookreviews #earlyyearsrea

Chaos met by silence. As humans, we have a tendency to land ourselves in one big mess.

My hope is that, collectively, we learn from it so we can heal and repair, in hopes of building a better tomorrow.

Illustration by the lovely Rosie @scrimmle -

Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating.

Filled with so much love & hope for this place that has given my family
a home for the last ten years.

May peace return soon along with the life we all miss dearly.

#eidmubarak #hopeandpeace

A wee personal update because so many people have reached out these last few weeks to check how we’re doing. Thank you all, it truly means a lot.

In short, we are okay. We’re currently taking a little break to spend a few days with famil

From Dubai with Love - Just a little reminder of the beautiful city we call home and chose to raise our children in. You can download and print the FREE colouring sheet from my website - www.kathyurbantales.com #lovedubai #freecolouring

Kindness goes a long way and we need a lot of this right now - every little pocket of it.

While I’m unable to share live readings at the moment, I decided to upload my books on YouTube.

If you’d like to share these with your little ones

🌳 Praise for A Tree for Everyone – swipe to find out what other readers say about the book!

We’re so grateful for all the kind words and love this story has received so far!

Have you read the book? Did you like it? Share your thoughts

So much of what I believe about play comes from my own childhood, including one unforgettable summer spent building a rather wobbly treehouse in an old tree my friends and I had discovered by the stream.

That summer some 30 plus year ago was messy a