Category: Reading and Literacy

  • Midsummer Mayhem! – A Bronze Age Adventure Story

    This story covers ideas about time and measurement in ancient times. It also goes into moving heavy stones around the place – is this something else that Dug has invented? When Dug sees his dad celebrating the first glimpse of the Midsummer sun, he wonders how they can track its movements. With sticks, heavy stones,…

  • Go Offline!

    My website header says I’m “A real, live, proper, human children’s author.”It may seem obvious, but it’s getting harder to be seen in a world increasingly flooded with AI-generated content. I recently got an email from a company offering to turn my videos into newsletters for $19 a month. I pointed out that ChatGPT already does…

  • Welcome to my website

    I’m Shoo Rayner—author, illustrator, and lifelong creative. This site is where I explore the ideas behind my work: storytelling, drawing, illustration, reading, learning—and how we grow creatively, especially as children. If you’re a teacher, parent, home educator, or someone who simply cares about how children learn, think, and imagine—this is where I share what I’ve…