Join a father and child on a quiet day of wandering, observing, and asking resonant questions.

As a father mouse and his child set out to meander through their day, they notice other creatures moving along, too. Are they all going home? Did Dad’s lost scarf go home, too? Does everyone go home sooner or later? With soft, rounded characters evocative of miniature felt figurines and glowing, gently lit colours, this book offers a tender story of curiosity and parent-child connection — one whose open-ended questions might invite a broader exploration of loss and other universal themes.

My new picture book, Going Home, is out in Australia and New Zealand on February 1st, 2026!

This will be followed by foreign editions in the United States (under the title, Going Home With Dad), Italy, France, Moldova and Denmark.

Going Home is a book that celebrates parenthood, childhood, and the idea of home. The vision of home in the story is a universal and inevitable return to safety, familiarity and comfort for all things.

The two mice and their meandering day was inspired by a real day I spent with my daughter when she was about two years old. I commented on a car and suggested that it was someone driving home. My daughter took a hold of this idea and began to apply it to other things. We looked at insects and she decided they were going home. We looked at a plane and she thought that was going home too. Increasingly, things got more abstract. Clouds, drops of rain and a stick dropped in a creek were all heading for home. She decided that everything was on its way home. And I wondered whether she was right.

My hope is that Going Home inspires children and their grown-ups to reflect on what home means to them, and to be comforted by the suggestion that the peace and reassurance of home is ahead of all things at all times. I also wish to suggest that a secure and confident sense of home can impact the adventures we undertake, the way we love each other, and our ability to let go and say goodbye.

To celebrate the launch, I’ll be doing a number of events over the coming months. Keep an eye on my Events Page and Instagram for details. And please reach out via my Contact Page if you would like me to visit your library, bookshop or school. I’m looking forward to meeting you.