Simply if you thought Dozer’s bloated sense of self significance couldn’t get any worse, he’s weaselled his manner right into a youngsters’s guide….. Introducing: Row Row Row Your Boat (with Monsters) by Adam Simpson, that includes DOZER!!!🐶🌟
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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 12 months, 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 creator proceeds from this guide 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 guide that includes Dozer – Row Row Row Your Boat (With Monsters) – will likely be launched on 11 November 2025 and I can’t wait so that you can see it! Appropriate for kids from 3+ years and it’s accessible for pre-order from at present:
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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 creator of this guide is Adam Simpson who’s a associate on the legislation agency Simpsons that gives authorized providers for my enterprise. In dialog a number of months in the past, he talked about he had written a youngsters’s image guide 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, trying far more like an creator! I don’t know why I felt the necessity to share each, aspect by aspect no much less, and truthfully, what do I find out about what an creator ought to seem like? 😆
Inform me about Dozer’s guide!
Row, Row, Row Your Boat (With Monsters) is a guide that’s learn (sung!) to the well-known nursery rhyme “Row, Row, Row your boat”. 🎶 It’s a few night-time journey starring Dozer because the canine of two youngsters who journey by imaginative landscapes looking for the issues that go BUMP within the night time.
Adam wrote the guide for his two daughters, Charlotte and Madeleine, to encourage curiosity and boldness, significantly within the face of issues that could be, at first, relatively horrifying. It’s a guide appropriate for kids 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 manner she interpreted Dozer within the photos – enjoyable and cute!
Will there be a guide tour??!!!
I hope so! Dozer is working arduous to remain match and nicely (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 If you happen to’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 seems to be extra like a child bonnet gone unsuitable 😅).
Obtainable for pre-order from at present!
I’ve obtained a lot enjoyable stuff to share within the coming months for Dozer’s image guide! It’s accessible for pre-order from at present and will likely be launched on 11 November 2025:
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And at last – a giant thanks to Adam Simpson for choosing DOZER to characteristic in his guide!! And for therefore generously selecting to donate all of the royalties from his guide to One Meal, the fantastic organisation we associate with to get RecipeTin Meals into the arms 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 creator 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 guide. I’m genuinely doing this as a result of it’s for trigger, the guide is cute, Adam Simpson is an effective individual and in addition as a result of it’s enjoyable! 🙂
Adam Simpson is a lawyer by day and youngsters’s guide creator 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 number of issues. Working RecipeTin just isn’t all desserts and pasta, sadly! 😂
It was positively a shock when he approached me to ask how I’d really feel about making Dozer the canine in his guide – you don’t anticipate your suited up lawyer to speak industrial legislation in a single sentence then an image guide about monsters within the subsequent breath (!). But it surely wasn’t a tough resolution to make as soon as he advised me he wished to donate all of the proceeds to charity.
Plus – Dozer. Any venture involving Dozer is enjoyable!
Adam Simpson, the creator, has undertaken to donate all of the royalties he receives from the sale of the guide 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 combat 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 guide.
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-after-day to these in want – we’re at the moment donating 600 day-after-day (plus desserts!).
The way in which 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 will go to gather meals at a given time each week.
Again when One Meal first began, the meals had 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 guide is being printed 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 staff that I already know and luxuriate in working with!
The canine door in the home plans needed to be upsized.
Lifetime of Dozer
104 photographs later, I’m finished, however Dozer’s simply getting began! #Showpony
