Simply whenever you thought Dozer’s bloated sense of self significance couldn’t get any worse, he’s weaselled his means right into a kids’s ebook….. Introducing: Row Row Row Your Boat (with Monsters) by Adam Simpson, that includes DOZER!!!🐶🌟
Yearly I really feel like Dozer has achieved his profession excessive. He’s, in any case, 13 (!), and after his visitor look on Play College final yr, everybody was satisfied he’d peaked.
But right here we’re…….however I’m sure we can’t prime this. DOZER IN A PICTURE BOOK!!! There will not be sufficient exclamation marks on this world to speak my pleasure!!!!!!
And if that weren’t sufficient, all of the writer proceeds from this ebook are being donated to One Meal, the not-for-profit charity that distributes the meals we make at RecipeTin Meals to these in want all throughout Sydney. 🥰
This image ebook that includes Dozer – Row Row Row Your Boat (With Monsters) – shall be launched on 11 November 2025 and I can’t wait so that you can see it! Appropriate for youngsters from 3+ years and it’s out there for pre-order from as we speak:
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How did this occur??!
I do know, proper?? Sounds so random! I need to let you know that Dozer was “found” on the canine park by an agent, however the fact just isn’t as glamorous! (Additionally, I’m his agent 😅).
The writer of this ebook is Adam Simpson who’s a associate on the legislation agency Simpsons that gives authorized providers for my enterprise. In dialog a couple of months in the past, he talked about he had written a kids’s image ebook for his younger daughters (hidden expertise!) and requested how I’d really feel in regards to the canine featured in it being Dozer. That in itself was thrilling, however when he added that every one his proceeds can be donated to One Meal, it sealed the deal.
So, as uncommon as it’d sound (my lawyer!), it feels very pure and proper, and since it’s for a not-for-profit that I’m carefully aligned with, it’s a privilege to be concerned!
That is Adam Simpson, within the picture beneath. The lawyer Adam on the left, and Adam exterior the workplace, wanting rather more like an writer! I don’t know why I felt the necessity to share each, facet by facet no much less, and truthfully, what do I learn about what an writer ought to appear to be? 😆
Inform me about Dozer’s ebook!
Row, Row, Row Your Boat (With Monsters) is a ebook that’s learn (sung!) to the well-known nursery rhyme “Row, Row, Row your boat”. 🎶 It’s a couple of night-time journey starring Dozer because the canine of two kids who journey by means of imaginative landscapes seeking the issues that go BUMP within the night time.
Adam wrote the ebook for his two daughters, Charlotte and Madeleine, to encourage curiosity and boldness, notably within the face of issues that could be, at first, moderately scary. It’s a ebook appropriate for youngsters 3+.
The illustrations are by Gypsy Taylor who’s an award-winning designer and illustrator whose profession spans movie, TV, commercials and animations. I like the enjoyable means she interpreted Dozer within the footage – enjoyable and cute!
Will there be a ebook tour??!!!
I hope so! Dozer is working onerous to remain match and effectively (and I’m engaged on my singing!) so he can be part of me for particular occasions, like readings in retailer. I see mattress time tales, pillow fights, cookie decorations and Dozer PJ’s!!!!😂
It would solely be in Sydney and surrounds although, as sadly Dozer can’t journey interstate.
(PS In case you’re questioning what that pink factor on Dozer’s head is, it’s my sleeping masks. The imaginative and prescient in my head was cuter – it now, it appears to be like extra like a child bonnet gone incorrect 😅).
Accessible for pre-order from as we speak!
I’ve bought a lot enjoyable stuff to share within the coming months for Dozer’s image ebook! It’s out there for pre-order from as we speak and shall be launched on 11 November 2025:
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And eventually – an enormous thanks to Adam Simpson for choosing DOZER to characteristic in his ebook!! And for therefore generously selecting to donate all of the royalties from his ebook to One Meal, the great organisation we associate with to get RecipeTin Meals into the palms of individuals throughout Sydney who want them. As a result of nobody ought to go hungry. ❤️
– Dozer’s agent (Nagi)
FAQ
As a result of the writer proceeds are being donated to a not-for-profit that I’m carefully aligned to (One Meal) and Dozer is in it!
I’m not being paid in any kind. I’ve no monetary curiosity in Row, Row, Row Your Boat (With Monsters) in any respect, I don’t get commissions from folks clicking the hyperlink to pre-order the ebook. I’m genuinely doing this as a result of it’s for a great trigger, the ebook is cute, Adam Simpson is an efficient individual and in addition as a result of it’s enjoyable! 🙂
Adam Simpson is a lawyer by day and youngsters’s ebook writer by night time! He’s a associate at Simpsons legislation agency in Sydney whose providers I make use of for authorized recommendation for my enterprise – company and HR issues, to call a couple of issues. Operating RecipeTin just isn’t all desserts and pasta, sadly! 😂
It was undoubtedly a shock when he approached me to ask how I’d really feel about making Dozer the canine in his ebook – you don’t anticipate your suited up lawyer to speak business legislation in a single sentence then an image ebook about monsters within the subsequent breath (!). Nevertheless it wasn’t a tough resolution to make as soon as he informed me he needed to donate all of the proceeds to charity.
Plus – Dozer. Any undertaking involving Dozer is enjoyable!
Adam Simpson, the writer, has undertaken to donate all of the royalties he receives from the sale of the ebook to charities. Royalties are paid bi-annually by the writer.
The primary charity he has nominated to obtain the royalties is One Meal Northern Seashores, a not-for-profit that goals to struggle starvation that I’m aligned with (they distribute the meals we make at RTM all throughout Sydney), and that is printed on the duvet of the ebook.
One Meal Northern Seashores is a not-for-profit organisation based mostly in Brookvale within the Northern Seashores. They distribute the meals we make at RecipeTin Meals day by day to these in want – we’re at present donating 600 day by day (plus desserts!).
The best way I describe it to folks – we do the cooking, and One Meal do the distribution, They decide the place the meals ought to go and organize for the supply of the meals to these areas. Some go on to households or people, some go to shelters, some go to distribution factors the place recipients know they’ll go to gather meals at a given time each week.
Again when One Meal first began, the meals have been solely distributed within the Northern Seashores space. However for the previous few years, meals are going out all throughout Sydney and even to decrease areas of the Central Coast.
The ebook is being revealed by Pan Macmillan who’s the writer of each my cookbooks. Which makes this much more pure and enjoyable, as a result of we’re working with a group that I already know and revel in working with!
The canine door in the home plans needed to be upsized.
Lifetime of Dozer
104 photographs later, I’m completed, however Dozer’s simply getting began! #Showpony
