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We encourage children to be adventurous, inquisitive and active.
Our stories for 7 - 12 yo kids will spark their imaginations, get them talking about new and unusual stuff.

The stories we read as children stay with us, all our lives. Especially when we get to be 7 or 8 and into our Pre-Teens.

Every premium story has moments when your child say "wow, I didn't know that, Mum!" That's why we write them. So you can share another "wow" moment or two, with your child!"

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Who Writes Stories My Nana Tells?

Lesley Dewar With Chasey

Our stories are written by Lesley Dewar - an adventurous grandmother who loves to travel, explore and see new and exciting things.
She has been bungy jumping in New Zealand; flown in a helicopter across icy mountains and rocky deserts; went white water rafting in Bali and swimming with dolphins in Hawaii. This Nana tells very engaging stories to entertain the whole family: travel, gardening, history, science, the internet and more. After a 26 year career as a financial planner, she says: The Retirement Party Was A Blast!

“She has gone from being one of Western Australia’s most respected financial planners to the author of exceptional stories for children and grandchildren world-wide” . Peter Taliangis,
Property Consultant – Real Estate Agent - Perth - Realty 1 One (via LinkedIn)

Snippets – To Give You A Tantalizing Taste Of Stories My Nana Tells.

An Echidna For Your Birthday, Angus.

Angus And The Echidna. Once upon a time, there was a little boy called Angus. He was having a birthday and he got a special surprise. On his back lawn, in the morning, was a magic red helicopter! It only looked small but when he got up close he could see there was a Nana [...]

Resolutions and Revolutions

It would be a Revolution indeed if we all resolved to live by these beautiful principles. 1. Leave the lights on – while you are making love. Global warming won’t care about that. 2. Be frugal – with other people’s time and energy. There are all kinds of conservations we need to practice. 3. Be [...]

Getting My Mojo Back!

Lesley Dewar is an author and publisher of Stories My Nana Tells. She was one of some leading Perth career women to participate in Mentoring sessions for Year 12 Girls from Penrhos College, Perth, on February 12, 2013, in conjunction with Women In Business WA. This blog was written half way through her chemo [...]

Splinter – Bedraggled

Teng Sing Tung, the elegant Tonkinese, was my heart’s delight and his accidental death devastated me. At that time, in late March 2006, I was going away overseas and I could not leave my Dad (Nono) home, alone without a cat. So, on a sunny Saturday afternoon, I put a cardboard box onto his lap and said [...]

Lesley and Richard in the garden, in his old toy car

Do I Really Remember This?

Do I really remember this? When we were children, my brother and I, we lived in the goldfields of Western Australia in Big Bell. In fact, Richard was born there in December 1946, when I was just a couple of weeks shy of my third birthday. My parents returned to Big Bell as soon as [...]

Bluey - helping after the air conditioner was installed.

Do You Have A Hero In Your Family?

Monday Feb 21 – 2011. A day of strange disruptions in Perth. After a lovely weekend of catsitting in the hills at Chateau de Liswar while Warren and Lisa took overseas friends to Rottnest, I came home mid morning to try and sort out some communication issues with Telstra. A planned Skype conference was deferred [...]