Description

Bess Of Clara Vale - The Autistic Labrador is a gently illustrated children’s book about belonging, sensory differences, and learning that being different is not something to be fixed.

Created by NHS nurse and autistic author-illustrator Lin Fidgin, this first book in the Bess series introduces a thoughtful Labrador who experiences the world a little differently from her peers,  and discovers reassurance, friendship, and confidence along the way. In this first book we learn about Bess and her differences and learn how she experiences the world as she goes to the village hall to do Yoga with her best friends Ados and Mabel.

Through calm storytelling and expressive watercolour illustrations, Bess offers children a reassuring message:

You are not broken. You are just different. You belong.