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Now Available! Find Your Fabulous Book!

The book cover of Find Your Fabulous. it has a yellow background and the words 'Find Your Fabulous' in large brightly coloured letters. Children who are smiling and wearing brightly coloured clothes are interacting with the letters by peeking through them & hanging off them. There are also tiny hearts and stars around the letters.
| Lottie Thomson

Find Your Fabulous By Vie Portland, illustrated by Lottie Thomson is now available to buy in the UK and USA!

The book cover of Find Your Fabulous. it has a yellow background and the words 'Find Your Fabulous' in large brightly coloured letters. Children who are smiling and wearing brightly coloured clothes are interacting with the letters by peeking through them & hanging off them. There are also tiny hearts and stars around the letters.

I’m thrilled to announce that Find Your Fabulous – a consciously inclusive book that teaches children about self-confidence, daily coping techniques and kindness to ourselves and others, is finally available to buy online!

Firstly, a thank you!

Firstly, a huge thank you to everyone who pre-ordered and supported the crowd-funding campaign, supporting a book before it is even a book is a big commitment and I’m so grateful for your faith and support for this project! Thank you to Vie Portland for writing such a fabulous book, Jennifer Jones for designing the layout & Isobel Kent for editing.

An illustration showing four children holding up a handmade sign saying 'Find Our Fabulous' - there is bunting behind them and they are wearing party hats.
AN illustration from the book Find Your Fabulous by Vie Portland, illustrated by Lottie Thomson. It shows three children holding hands and smiling against a blue background with a swirling rainbow through the middle. From left to right the children are am Asian boy with glasses in a power chair wearing a green hoodie, a black girl wearing ear defenders and a chewy necklace with a cuddly toy in a handbag over her shoulder, a white girl with brown hair, she has downs syndrome and a hearing aid and wears a pink dress with ruffles.
An illustration from the book Find Your Fabulous by Vie Portland, illustrated by Lottie Thomson. The illustration shos a group of children against a pink background, they are wearing different animal costumes and are acting in ways similar to the animals they're pretending to be.
An illustration from the book Find Your Fabulous by Vie Portland, illustrated by Lottie Thomson. The image shows two children dressed as lions roaring loudly with the word ROOOAR!! hand-lettered above their heads. The children are an Asian girl with her hair in two buns like cat ears holding a lion plushie and a white boy in a lion onesie in an orange wheelchair.
An illustration from the book Find Your Fabulous by Vie Portland, illustrated by Lottie Thomson. The illustration shows ways people can be kind to other people and themselves. It shows a street scene with a charity shop and community centre. People are donating toys and food, putting litter in the bin, practicing self care by listening to music and picking up dog poop!
An illustration from the book Find Your Fabulous by Vie Portland, illustrated by Lottie Thomson. The illustration shows a street scene with a grassy area in the foreground with a tree, people are practicing ways they can be kind by feeding a hedgehog, picking up litter, fixing a bike wheel, feeding the birds, offering cookies and helping others to cross the road.
A few pages from the book Find Your Fabulous!

What will you find in this book?

  • Songs, practical things to do and discuss! Vie’s years of experience working in schools as a confidence speaker for children are brought together into fun things to act out, songs and questions to discuss together.
  • Real children! Some of the children in this book are real and very fabulous people! At the end of the book they share a little bit about what makes them fabulous.
  • Disability representation. As an illustrator who lives with chronic illness and neurodiversity and an author with multiple disabilities, we wanted to make a real effort to make children with disabilities, visible differences and hidden disabilities feel seen and represented.
  • Accessibility! The book has been designed with dyslexia and visual impairment in mind. There is an audio version and British Sign Language version of the book, and a braille version in the works.

Where can I buy it?

Buy Find your Fabulous by Vie Portland, illustrated by Lottie Thomson

In the UK

From the Author Direct!

Waterstones

Amazon

In the USA

Skylight Books

Barnes and Noble

In Australia

Booktopia

In Newzealand

Mightyape.co.nz

In Nordic countries

Adlibris

The rest of Europe via Amazon

This list will be updated as more booksellers become available, remember to shop independent if you can!

An illustration from the book of a girl with brown skin and long wavy hair, she has her arms raised above her head and a happy face. She is wearing a long sleeves striped tshirt and green dungarees and a rainbow autism infinity symbol bracelet.

Find Your Fabulous – Children’s Non-Fiction Book on Self Confidence…coming soon!

| Lottie Thomson

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m the illustrator attached to the book ‘Find Your Fabulous’ by author, confidence educator and motivational speaker Vie Portland of Vieness CIC.

Vie has published several inclusive children’s books, but this will be her first non-fiction book, based on the inclusive confidence building workshops she runs in schools around the UK. It will be our first time working together and our shared values make this a really exciting project to be a part of.

It’s currently in the crowdfunding stage, with an early sketch shown above!

The book illustrations will consciously depict children with visible disabilities and neuro-diversity. You can also choose a funding option whereby your child’s likeness will be included in the book!

Support the Crowdfunder

Black and White Interior Book Illustrations for – Radical Self Love by Gala Darling

| Lottie Thomson

‘Radical Self Love’ a book by Gala Darling, interior black & white illustrations created by Charlotte ‘Lottie’ Thomson.

I was fortunate to meet Gala Darling at a blogging event prior to the release of her book, I was ‘live scribing’ at the event so Gala saw me create art in person and loved what she saw!

It wasn’t long before she approached me via email to create the interior illustrations for her book Radical Self Love. Initially self published it was scooped up by Hay House, and the rest is history!

The illustrations feature throughout the book as chapter headers & full pages between sections. They represent the themes of the different sections of the book which centres around self care, self respect, cultivating magical friendships and building a positive relationship with yourself. My favourite illustrations are the portraits of Gala and her friend and the ‘Magic and Manifesting’ illustrations which appeal to my love of all things mystical.

Buy Radical Self Love by Gala Darling,
interior illustrations by Charlotte ‘Lottie’ Thomson.