{"id":181,"date":"2021-05-18T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2021-10-30T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T14:20:54","slug":"sarah-ferguson-the-duchess-of-york-reads-childrens-storybook-addressing-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/sarah-ferguson-the-duchess-of-york-reads-childrens-storybook-addressing-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York reads children&#8217;s storybook addressing COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Duchess of York is currently reading children\u2019s storybooks on her Youtube channel \u2018Story time with Fergie and Friends\u2019 and today featured the fictional heroine Belinda Fitz-John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018WHAT\u2019S GOING ON? Asked Belinda Fitz-John\u2019 is a digital storybook for children aged 3 &#8211; 10 years, and it focuses on the current epidemic and helps children to recognise and name their feelings whilst offering them strategies to manage them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children across the world have been questioning why they are not allowed to play with their friends, attend school, visit grandparents and why they have to keep washing their hands.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are three incredibly talented mums behind the storybook, Donna Claire, Eleni Davis and Tamar Henry, and they each set out to create something informative, reassuring and illustrative for their own children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eleni commented:&nbsp;<em>\u201cWe originally wanted to answer the questions of our own children, but soon realized that this fictional character could help so many other children across the world. Belinda is a fictional character, however she resonates with children everywhere. She is extremely relatable and has a very organic life and association with children and parents at this present time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThere are millions of children that are questioning what is going on, and want answers that parents are not finding necessarily too easy to answer. Belinda gives children hope, comfort and unity in knowing that we are all in this together\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018WHAT\u2019S GOING ON? Asked Belinda Fitz-John\u2019 has featured on US, Australian and UK news outlets, and is already beginning to help parents around the world feel reassured in answering their children\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eleni continued:&nbsp;<em>\u201cWhen we found out that The Duchess of York was reading our story on her Youtube channel \u2018Story time with Fergie and Friends\u2019, we were delighted and just happy to be able to share Belinda with a wider audience. Our mission continues to be, to help parents and children and spread some reassurance for any children feeling scared, unsure and anxious. Thank you, Sarah Ferguson, for helping us spread some positivity with Belinda\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch Sarah Ferguson read the storybook<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TqjakjDDGGk\">&nbsp;<\/a><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TqjakjDDGGk\">here<\/a><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TqjakjDDGGk\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duchess of York is currently reading children\u2019s storybooks on her Youtube channel \u2018Story time with Fergie and Friends\u2019 and today featured the fictional heroine Belinda Fitz-John. \u2018WHAT\u2019S GOING ON? Asked Belinda Fitz-John\u2019 is a digital storybook for children aged 3 &#8211; 10 years, and it focuses on the current epidemic and helps children to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daisycraydonpr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}