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The Funny Feeling: An Online Safety Picture Book About Trusting Your Feelings and Telling a Grown-Up (Ages 5 to 7)
Paperback
Series: Little Safety Spotters, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ssh. Keep this game a secret. Do not tell your dad.
That is what the talking screen says to Ash, who is five. His tummy goes funny. Wibbly. Wobbly. Like jelly on a bus.
The story
It is a sleepy Sunday in Kettlebridge and Ash and Dad are playing a rhyming game on the tablet. Cat. Hat. Rat in a hat. Then the screen asks for a secret.
Biscuit sniffs the screen, does not bark, and walks away. It is only a screen.
Ash cannot whisper. DAD! THE SCREEN SAID A SECRET AND MY TUMMY WENT FUNNY!
Dad is right there. He puts the screen down and gives Ash a big cuddle. Well done, Ash. A screen does not get secrets. And a funny tummy is a good spotter.
The tell
Anyone who asks a child to keep a secret from their parents has told you exactly what they are.
That is the safeguarding lesson underneath every talk to your children leaflet, and here a five-year-old meets it as a story about a wibbly tummy and sausages for tea. Nothing frightening happens. Ash speaks up, is praised for it, and gets a cuddle and his tea. Children learn what telling feels like when it goes well, which is the part that makes them do it again.
Reading it together
An early reader picture book written for reading aloud and gentle enough for bedtime. Sixteen spreads, short sentences, a picture on every page. Two minutes of words, and it usually starts a conversation that runs longer. Suits Reception, Year 1 and Year 2, or kindergarten and first grade, and reads well to a four-year-old on a lap.
For parents, carers and teachers
There is no live AI in this book and no data is collected from any reader. Every word was written and checked by people.
It is warm, funny and never frightening. The adult in the story reacts perfectly, which is deliberate: a child who has seen telling go well is far more likely to tell.
Good for
Children safety online, taught as a feeling rather than a list of rules. Internet safety for kids who are too young for the detail but old enough for the instinct. Cyber safety for kids who cannot yet read a warning sign, let alone a privacy policy. Online safety for kids that carries over to the playground and the park.
It is the same instinct behind stranger danger, moved somewhere it is needed just as much, because online the odd thing almost never looks like a stranger. It looks like a game.
Especially good for the quiet child who does not like making a fuss.
What your child will be able to do
If something on a screen feels odd or makes your tummy go funny, stop and tell a grown-up.
Curriculum
Mapped to the statutory online safety and digital literacy strands of the curricula of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: the National Curriculum for England (Computing, and statutory Relationships and Health Education), the Curriculum for Wales (Digital Competence Framework), Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence (Technologies, and Health and Wellbeing), and the Northern Ireland Curriculum (Using ICT, and Personal Development and Mutual Understanding). Not endorsed or accredited by any government body.
The series
Book 3 of 6 in Little Safety Spotters, for ages 5 to 7. The others are The Shark on the Screen, My Name Is Mine, Not My Photo, The Screen Got It Wrong and That Sounds Like Nan. All six together in Safety Spotters: Six Ash Stories.
Available as an ebook and a paperback.
Free resources for home and school, plus the rest of the series, at safetyspotters.com
Is it real? Let's ask.
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