Lenny and Lily in Lockdown

Lenny and Lily live next door to each other. Every day they walk to school together and play with the same group of friends.

Then one day their teacher explains there is a pandemic. She tells them it means their school will be closing for some weeks and they will be learning at home. Lenny and Lily feel sad and abandoned.

The story explores Lenny and Lily’s experiences of loss and change in the days of the lockdown, how they develop ways of maintaining their friendship, the challenges of learning at home and the range of emotions they each experience.

"One boy in my class was upset as it was his birthday but he couldn't see his Nana. I reached for 'Lenny and Lily in Lockdown' and spent the next 2 hours looking at the story with him. He kept going back to the picture of the grandparents standing outside Lily's house and saying, 'It's ‘cos of the virus'. We read the story over and over again together, talking through how the characters felt and how he felt. The book opened up that conversation."

- Ms Sparnon, Primary school teacher