Join the one-of-a-kind, FREE online author experience for World Book Day.
Your kids will help create a growth mindset picture book!
- Four weeks of engaging tasks.
- From background research and plot ideas to use of language and illustration.
- Experience the behind-the-scenes of book creation and publishing.
- Really easy to participate - just play the short videos, do the fun tasks and submit your children's ideas.
- Be part of a book created by hundreds of children taking part in homes and classrooms across the UK!
How does it work?
Your children, alongside other children aged 4-11 across the UK, will help put together the next growth mindset picture book in the Bowly Can book series, completing weekly tasks on background research, plot ideas, use of language and illustration.
- We will be kicking off on Monday, 3rd February.
- The whole experience will take part inside the Bowly Can online portal.
- New content will be posted every Monday.
- Each week there’ll be a short video containing the week's task.
- You’ll find two sets of videos and worksheets, one for EY/KS1 and the other for KS2.
- There will be additional, optional tasks for KS2 to look further at topics.
- By the end of each week, your children’s ideas should be submitted via the portal, to inspire the book as it is built.
- The experience will end on World Book Day with the release of the book.
- The ebook will be Free on Amazon and a paperback version will also be available.
Week One: 03/02/25
Background research into the Bowly Can book series (three ebooks included) and bonus worksheets for Children's Mental Health Week.
Week Two: 10/02/25
Brainstorm plot ideas to inspire the story for the new book.
Week Three: 17/02/25
Focus on use of language, researching and brainstorming emotion-related vocabulary.
Week Four: 03/03/25
Create illustrations to be featured on the website alongside the book AND book release on World Book Day (free ebook will be available).
Week One: 03/02/25
Background research into the Bowly Can book series (three ebooks included) and bonus worksheets for Children's Mental Health Week.
Week Two: 10/02/25
Brainstorm plot ideas to inspire the story for the new book.
Week Three: 17/02/25
Focus on use of language, researching and brainstorming emotion-related vocabulary.
Week Four: 03/03/25
Create illustrations to be featured on the website alongside the book AND book release on World Book Day (free ebook will be available).
About the author
Angharad Davies lives in Carmarthenshire with her husband and two book-mad boys (7 and 5). After witnessing the magic of story in her children for nurturing emotional intelligence, growth mindset and resilience, she decided to write her own.
Combining her knowledge from postgraduate qualifications in Psychology and Play Therapy with her children's love for humorous reads, the Bowly Can book series was born.
With the help of her own children's story ideas and illustrations, Angharad is on a mission to deliver practical mindset and resilience tools to children across the nation through the power of story.
Having seen how engaged her children were in the book-creation process, she knew that more children had to experience this magic. She is now excited to be able to bring this unique experience to children across the UK to spark a love for all things reading and writing.
About Bowly
Bowly was inspired by the Hawaiian teaching of the Bowl of Light.
He is fun-loving and adores a challenge. He wears his big emotions on his sleeve and is on a mission to teach children everywhere the coolest of tools, so that they too can face anything life throws at them - even big dragons!
About the author
Angharad Davies lives in Carmarthenshire with her husband and two book-mad boys (7 and 5). After witnessing the magic of story in her children for nurturing emotional intelligence, growth mindset and resilience, she decided to write her own.
Combining her knowledge from postgraduate qualifications in Psychology and Play Therapy with her children's love for humorous reads, the Bowly Can book series was born. With the help of her own children's story ideas and illustrations, Angharad is on a mission to deliver practical mindset and resilience tools to children across the nation through the power of story.
Having seen how engaged her children were in the book-creation process, she knew that more children had to experience this magic. She is now excited to be able to bring this unique experience to children across the UK to spark a love for all things reading and writing.
About Bowly
Bowly was inspired by the Hawaiian teaching of the Bowl of Light.
He is fun-loving and adores a challenge. He wears his big emotions on his sleeve and is on a mission to teach children everywhere the coolest of tools, so that they too can face anything life throws at them - even big dragons!
Limited Company Registration Number: 13163486
15 Neptune Court, Vanguard Way
Cardiff, UK CF24 5PJ
angharad@bowlycan.com
