Hello, all!

We're excited to announce our free give-away competition, that sees you standing a chance to win the full series of your choice from Dr. Rose's edutainment selection, in both eBook and video formats.

Take a look at the titles below, and choose the series you think your child would most enjoy -
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Entry requirements -

1. Follow Dr. Rose on her new social media sites, if you have accounts there.

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2. Fill out the form below, marking which accounts you were able to follow.
3. Let us know which series you would choose, should you win.

The competition will run from Wednesday 27th August to 3rd September, 2025.
The winner will be notified and announced across our social media platforms on Friday, September 5th.

It's as simple as that!
​Good luck on your entry!
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Good day, all! It's Thursday today and that means it's blog day for us! If you've not met me before, I am Sasha the tooth-fairy, AKA Rose's Little Helper.  Today's blog is inspired by Rose's beautiful book 'The Simple Things Around Me.' 

The Simple Things Around Me is the first book in Rose's series, 'Life With Imani in Kenya'. In the story we walk with Imani and her mother to the village market. Along the way Imani notices life’s somewhat hidden happenings, and wonders how it would feel to be each of the phenomena she sees. Soon she realizes that these phenomena are very similar to the care her mother gives, that her love is as powerful yet as simple. And so she decides - if there’s one thing she really wants to be, it’s her mother; sharing love each day as easily as the simplest things go about theirs.

​One of the wonders she comes across on her walk with her mother is a Monarch Butterfly. And so, today we're going to share with you a few fun facts about Butterflies! 

Fun facts about Butterflies:

​1 ~ Although many butterflies are small in comparison to flying animals like birds and bats, they can grow as large as twelve inches.

2 ~ Butterflies can’t see all the colors of the rainbow like we do. They can only see red, green and yellow. However, because they have as many as six-thousand lenses in their eyes, they can also see ultra-violet light.

3 ~ Some butterflies can fly as fast as twelve miles per hour.

4 ~ Butterflies live on all continents of the world except Antarctica. That’s because it’s simply too cold for them there.

5 ~ While it looks like butterflies only have two wings, one left and one right, they actually have four. They use their wings for flying and steering simultaneously.

6 ~ There are between fifteen and twenty thousand different types of butterflies on planet Earth.

7 ~ Monarch butterflies are very strong. They can fly as far as four-thousand kilometers and will do so to lay their eggs in the perfect environment.

8 ~ A large swarm of butterflies is known as a ‘flutter’.

9 ~ Butterfly wings are not colorful! In fact, their wings are made up of tiny hairs known as ‘scales’ arranged in specific ways to reflect certain colors in light. These scales are like dust to the touch.

​10 ~ Butterflies don’t only get their food from flowers and plants; they also drink from mud puddles where they can absorb vital salts and minerals from the soil.

Well, we hope we have made your day a little more beautiful, a little brighter, the way butterflies do. We truly do live on an amazing planet, with so many different kingdoms to explore. If you have any photos or stories about butterflies to share with us, we'd be really happy to receive them. You can drop me a line via my page on Rose's website, or you can post your story or photos on Rose's Facebook and Twitter pages. 

Until next week, don't forget the simple things around you!
Keep smiling,
stay magical,
​Sasha ~

Good day, all! Thursday is blog day, and with spring only one month away in the Southern hemisphere and autumn one month away in the Northern, we decided to focus on seasons in today’s blog; more specifically ‘how are seasons formed?’  Most parents know the answer to this already. But for kids who aren’t quite sure yet, here’s all they need to know!

Let’s start with a little experiment, to show how our planet gets light from the sun as it moves around the sun.

1 ~ Place a light in the middle of your room, on a small table.
2 ~ Stand about one-meter away from this light and then start to spin around – on the spot - very slowly.
3 ~ As you spin on the spot, begin to walk around the light in your room in a full circle (don’t get dizzy or you’ll fall over)!
4 ~ Notice how the light lands on different parts of your body – on your back then your side, then on your tummy, depending on where you are in the circle as you walk around the light.

And this is how the sun makes day and night, every day!

Now, when the sun is closest to a certain part of the planet (top or bottom AKA North or South), we call it ‘summer’. When a certain part of the planet is furthest from the sun, we call it ‘winter’.  Because the Earth is round there will always be opposite sides, and this is why we experience summer in one hemisphere and winter in the other (top or bottom), and day and night from East to West (left and right sides).

​Of course, when there’s more sun and warmth plants and animals grow better. The sun is responsible for photosynthesis in plants, and the more plants grow the more food there is for the animals to eat. This happens in spring, when the sun starts to shine on an area of the Earth that has been furthest from the sun for a time.  During summer, the constant heat can get a little too much and we experience a lot of really hot days. With this heat comes drought sometimes, and some plants and animals struggle to find water to grow.  As the Earth spins and orbits, eventually that area where the sun shone too strong moves away from the sun, and we experience autumn and then (you got it) eventually winter.

You can also watch this video to hear all that’s been said above explained in more detail, and see diagrams to get a clearer picture of how it works:

And there you have it! Hopefully this blog has been interesting for you, and now your kids can tell their friends that they understand just how the seasons are formed.

While writing this today I thought of a book by Rose called ‘The Simple Things Around Me’.  It’s a story about a young girl named Imani, from Kenya, who reminds us of the beautiful and simple things that nature offers us all the time, especially in spring! Being a tooth-fairy, my favorite seasons are spring and summer because then I don’t have to bump into Jack Frost (hah)!

Feel free to tell us in the comments on Facebook or Twitter which season is your favorite – we’d really love to know!

​Until next time, keep smiling,
stay magical!
Sasha ~