A heartwarming story that helps children with ADHD feel seen, understood, and empowered. A dyslexia-friendly chapter book inspired by a real rescue dog, designed to gently support emotional understanding, confidence, and connection.
Is this book for your child?
This book is especially helpful if your child:
- Struggles to engage with reading
- Has ADHD, dyslexia, or feels “different”
- Experiences big emotions or frustration
- Needs help building confidence and self-worth
- Loves animals and real-life stories
“This heartwarming book celebrates not just the value of adopting a rescue pet, but the very real benefit those pets bring to our lives, and especially to the lives of children who need that extra support.
The story is delightfully told, full of warmth, humour and a great deal of heart. The text is enhanced by Amanda Meaden’s illustrations, which are full of character and life.
The book also contains a series of very valuable exercises and the true story behind the book, including pictures of the magnificent Poppy herself. A much-needed and heartfelt book. Congratulations!”
Bob Stone. Bookshop Owner
📖 What’s It All About? 📖
Meet ten-year-old Alex, a spirited youngster who dreads his family’s trip to Greece because it takes him away from the safety and comfort of his room and home. Little does Alex know that this vacation will transform his life forever when he crosses paths with an abandoned, wounded puppy.
Join Alex on a heartwarming journey as he vows to nurse the puppy back to health and bring her back to England.
Can he and his family overcome the myriad of challenges that stand in their way?
More importantly, can Alex convince his loved ones that ADHD is not a disorder but a gift waiting to be unwrapped?
Discover if determination alone can make miracles happen!
But that’s not all; Poppy’s Miracle goes beyond the story. It includes journal pages filled with engaging activities that help readers process, understand, and celebrate themselves and their unique gifts.
Inspired by a True Story
📚 Who Can Benefit from Poppy’s Miracle? 📚
👪 Parents: Understand your child’s ADHD better and equip yourself with tools to help them manage their challenges while celebrating their extraordinary gifts.
🧒 Children with ADHD: Through Alex and Poppy’s adventures, kids can relate to their own challenges and learn to harness their strengths instead of dwelling on their disorder.
👩🏫 Teachers: This book is a treasure trove for educators, providing a KS2 resource that fosters literacy, enriches vocabulary, and aligns with PHSE and the Welsh Curriculum 4 Core Purposes. It also opens the door for meaningful discussions and writing exercises through its prompts and activities.
🧘♂️ Child Psychotherapists, Counsellors, and Care Workers: Poppy’s Miracle offers a gentle, personalized approach to working with neurodivergent children. It helps them understand their ADHD, discover their gifts, and boost their self-esteem and confidence. The prompts create a neutral ground for one-on-one sessions, allowing conversations to flow naturally and deepen understanding.
🏡 Foster Carers: This book provides a heartwarming way to connect with foster children who have ADHD. It makes them feel heard, seen, validated, accepted, valued, and celebrated. With its roots in a real-life ADHD journey, it offers endless opportunities for bonding and conversation.
Don’t miss out on the chance to transform your child’s perspective on ADHD and empower them to embrace their unique talents. Dive into Poppy’s Miracle today, and together, let’s unveil the true potential hidden within every child! 🌟
“Usually, as I have dyslexia, I personally am not a big reader. However, as this book was so engaging, I read it all in one night!
Love the fact that it is produced in a dyslexia friendly font, with large font size/spacing. It made it easy for me to follow instead of getting lost.
This book was very heart-warming. I could relate to the author when her son received a diagnosis, which led to the author being diagnosed with a medical condition. As the same happened to me and my daughter with something similar.
I love how it gives suggestions at the back of how to recognise and deal with your emotions.
Michelle is an inspiration, proving you can achieve anything as long as you have that determination inside you.
Well done Michelle, it was lovely to meet you and Poppy today at the book signing.
A lovely positive book with a key message at the end – to just be yourself, and let that light inside of you shine!
I hope you do more books in the future”
Jennifer K.
“Huge congratulations on your beautiful book, I absolutely loved it! What a fantastic story!
I really liked all the ideas and worksheets included at the back, as I feel it really gives the reader the ability to interact with the story at a deeper level. I especially liked the permission to write in the book and make it your own!
I thought about it from the perspective of working with SEN children, and I felt it really lends itself to use in small group work with children who also have a diagnosis of ADHD. I think it’s got some great group work discussion opportunities to maybe get a group to identify characteristics of ADHD and how they relate those to themselves. To expand on that I could imagine then broadening the discussion to look at strategies people use to help with some of the characteristics.
I also felt that there was room to expand a discussion around bullying and look at strategies for that too. It would be a good lead-in for teachers to work on how individual schools deal with bullying and flag processes and procedures in place for reporting etc.
It could also be lovely to look at some of the ADHD characteristics as superpowers – the section where Nana talks about the positives – and perhaps, depending on the age group, have children expand some of these to create their own ADHD superhero bespoke to them”
Claire Luxford Counsellor and Accredited Member of the BACP