Support for insightful children's book

29 June 2015
Volume 31 · Issue 6

A children’s story which is being published to raise money for the charity Meningitis Now and as a lasting legacy to a teenager who died from the infection has won the backing of the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry.

Robey and the Dentist is being published by the family of the late Edward Saunders who died when he was 18 and wrote the story when he was just 11.  Edward’s mother Tracey decided to publish the book with the support of crowd-funding and she turned to Kickstarter, to raise her target of £5k. She was touched and amazed by all the support she received and netted more than £10k in only 30 days.

Available through a dedicated website - http://www.robeyandthedentist.co.uk - the cost is £7.99 including post and packing. All the money raised is either going towards the book or to Meningitis Now.

The story was inspired by a teacher who asked all the class to write a bedtime story for his own little boy and is about a lad who is worried his dentist will think his teeth aren’t white enough. The moral of the tale is that clean teeth are more important than white teeth.

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