Dr Ffion Jones is a children’s author and illustrator, living on the Swansea coast with her husband and two lovely daughters. Her passion is for writing books that help children work through difficult issues such as anxiety, bullying, serious illness and bereavement. Emily is Being Bullied: What Can She Do? (Jessica Kinsley Publishers 2018; co-authored with Professor Helen Cowie and Dr Harriet Tenenbaum), A School for Everyone: Stories & Lesson Plans to Teach Inclusivity & Social Issues (JKP September 2021; co-authored with Cowie and Tenenbaum), and Golden Flowers for Little Dragon, The Book Guild, October 2021 encourage open conversations with children about their experiences and feelings.
She also co-directs, writes and illustrates the Nurse Ted series of books, supporting children whose parents have been diagnosed with serious illnesses such as cancer (www.nurseted.com). More recently, she founded Fly Me Stories, a social enterprise sending personalised stories to seriously unwell children in hospitals, hospices and at home (www.flymestories.com). She recently signed with Ventorros Press for a picture book called To the Moon and Back, about the special sibling bond, which was inspired by one family who received a Fly Me Story.
As well as writing, she has been a creative writing and wellbeing tutor for a number of years. She worked on a Literature Wales Writer Commission, “Painting Pictures with Words,” a series of online art inspired creative writing workshops with a home education community. She is currently working on a National Lottery Arts Council England Grant focusing on sibling bereavement.
