The Adventures of Mindy and Mo: Stories to Promote Speech Sound Development

Emily Kempster is an English teacher with 20 years’ experience working in Gloucestershire secondary schools. Her passion for books inspired her to write from a young age, anything from short plays to ghost stories. More recently, in an attempt to entertain her young family and support her youngest daughter’s difficulties with some speech sounds, she has focused on writing narrative poems. She hopes that the Mindy and Mo adventures will capture the imagination of young readers as well as support their speech sound development. Lucy Cannon is a painter, illustrator and designer. Interested in all things creative from an early age, she studied Art and Graphic Design at college before heading into a successful management career in the voluntary sector. To follow her passion for art she set up Imagination by Lucy, which offers mural painting, illustration and creating custom home furnishings and apparel. Lucy is also involved in charity work, helping families who have children with heart conditions, but her most rewarding role to date is that of mum to two young children, one of whom had significant speech difficulties up to the age of 5. She now juggles time between bringing up her family, running her business, helping others and eating too much chocolate. Rebecca Skinner is Head of Speech and Language Therapy and author at Thriving Language Community Interest Company. Co-founded by Rebecca and Becky Poulter Jewson, Thriving Language specialises in early years consultancy, offering training to early years settings and guest lecturing at universities on their undergraduate courses in Early Childhood Studies. Rebecca also works for the Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, specialising in early years and cleft palate.

This set comprises 8 entertaining and engaging books which are written with a target sound at their core – 1 key sound per book, covering ‘p’, ‘b’, ‘t’, ‘d’, 'c' and ‘k’, ‘f’, ‘s’ and ‘g’. The books contain rhythm and rhymes centred around the target sound with repeated phrases for children to join in with to practice their target sound. Included in the set are Mindy and Mo’s Groovy Gog, Mindy and Mo’s Dino Duo, Mindy and Mo’s Crazy Carpet, Mindy and Mo’s Pirate Problem, Mindy and Mo’s Super Sledge, Mindy and Mo’s Troll Trouble, Mindy and Mo’s Bear Bother and Mindy and Mo’s Fab Flight.