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When Bridie starts school, she faces all the usual challenges -making friends, learning new things, and fitting in. But there's one thing that makes her feel different: she is adopted.... With support from her loving family, Bridie discovers that it's okay to share her story when she's ready. A warm, reassuring story about love, belonging, and finding the courage to be yourself.

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Flo Jackman is a children's author whose work centres on adoption, belonging, and identity, written with warmth, honesty, and deep understanding of children's emotional worlds. She is the creator of The Bridie Collection, a series of children's books designed to help adopted children feel seen and supported, while also equipping families, schools, and professionals to talk openly about difference and belonging.The first book in the series, Bridie's New Family, offers a tender, age-appropriate introduction to adoption, following a young girl as she joins her loving forever family. The second book, Bridie Starts School, explores the universal challenges of starting school, as well as the more nuanced feelings of being adopted and feeling different.Alongside her writing, Flo brings a rare blend of lived and professional experience. She is an adopter, a Family Magistrate, and has been offered a place on the Adoption Panel (Approval & Matching) as an Independent Member, which she will take up as soon as a vacancy arises. This gives her first hand insight into adoption from the perspectives of family life, the courts, and professional decision making.This breadth of experience deeply informs her work and makes her a thoughtful, credible voice on adoption, children's wellbeing, and inclusive education.

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