Due for Release in Australia & New Zealand in March 2026!
Tim is always losing things when he travels — he is a foster child, and often moves from one family to the next. One day he realizes he has lost something very precious: his laugh. Then he moves in with the Lee family, and some news arrives that might just help Tim find his laugh again. The Boy Who Lost His Laugh takes a sensitive look at foster care from the child’s perspective, and shows how humour and love can help you bounce back and find what you’ve been looking for all along.
SPECIFICATIONS: Hardback 9781921497162, 32 Pages | Paperback 9781921497087, 34 Pages | 229 mm x 216 mm
Dimity Powell loves filling every spare moment with words. She writes and reviews exclusively for children and has published over 30 stories including This is My Dad (2022), the award-winning At the End of Holyrood Lane (2018) and the critically acclaimed The Fix-It Man (2017).
Her past adventures include skiing the French Alps, Kombiing around a quarter of Australia, spotting manatees in Florida, and getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Dimity loves sailing on the beam, reading under trees and laughing lots.
Heidi Cooper Smith is an author-illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. She illustrates digitally using watercolour brushes and likes to write quirky, whimsical stories. When she’s not working on a book, Heidi can be found covered in clay, working as a production potter while dreaming up new characters to bring to life.
Dimity Powell loves filling every spare moment with words. She writes and reviews exclusively for children and has published over 30 stories including This is My Dad (2022), the award-winning At the End of Holyrood Lane (2018) and the critically acclaimed The Fix-It Man (2017).
Her past adventures include skiing the French Alps, Kombiing around a quarter of Australia, spotting manatees in Florida, and getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Dimity loves sailing on the beam, reading under trees and laughing lots.
Heidi Cooper Smith is an author-illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. She illustrates digitally using watercolour brushes and likes to write quirky, whimsical stories. When she’s not working on a book, Heidi can be found covered in clay, working as a production potter while dreaming up new characters to bring to life.
Tim loves his collection of dinosaurs — but one thing he’d love even more is a family of his own.
Tim’s beloved dinosaur collection travels with him wherever he goes. But Tim travels a lot — he is a foster child, and has to move from one family to the next all too often.
Tim is always losing things, so when he moves in with the Lee family he doesn’t bother unpacking his dinosaurs in case they get lost when he has to move again. But one day he realizes he has lost something just as precious as his dinosaurs: his laugh. He doesn’t know where he lost it, but it has definitely disappeared.
The kind Lee family help Tim look for his laugh, but no one can find it anywhere. Then one day, some news arrives that might just help Tim find his laugh again.
The Boy Who Lost His Laugh takes a sensitive look at foster care from the child’s perspective, and shows how humour and love can help you bounce back and find what you’ve been looking for all along.
Dimity Powell loves filling every spare moment with words. She writes and reviews exclusively for children and has published over 30 stories including This is My Dad (2022), the award-winning At the End of Holyrood Lane (2018) and the critically acclaimed The Fix-It Man (2017).
Her past adventures include skiing the French Alps, Kombiing around a quarter of Australia, spotting manatees in Florida, and getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Dimity loves sailing on the beam, reading under trees and laughing lots.
Heidi Cooper Smith is an author-illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. She illustrates digitally using watercolour brushes and likes to write quirky, whimsical stories. When she’s not working on a book, Heidi can be found covered in clay, working as a production potter while dreaming up new characters to bring to life.
Dimity Powell loves filling every spare moment with words. She writes and reviews exclusively for children and has published over 30 stories including This is My Dad (2022), the award-winning At the End of Holyrood Lane (2018) and the critically acclaimed The Fix-It Man (2017).
Her past adventures include skiing the French Alps, Kombiing around a quarter of Australia, spotting manatees in Florida, and getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Dimity loves sailing on the beam, reading under trees and laughing lots.
Heidi Cooper Smith is an author-illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. She illustrates digitally using watercolour brushes and likes to write quirky, whimsical stories. When she’s not working on a book, Heidi can be found covered in clay, working as a production potter while dreaming up new characters to bring to life.
