About
About Hopadoo Tales
What Hopadoo Tales is
Hopadoo Tales is a children’s brand built around four friends — Pico, Kiki, Tuba and Mimi — who live by a pond and keep running into the kinds of problems small children recognise.
It spans picture books, early-learning activity books, songs and rhymes, and animated stories. The books are written under the pen name Nola Sprig.
The site is written for parents, carers, teachers and librarians — the people deciding what to read next — even though the stories themselves are for the children listening.
What guides the stories
One clear lesson
Each story is built around a single idea a small child can actually hold on to — being brave, being kind, asking for help.
Feelings taken seriously
Being scared, frustrated or shy is treated as normal and worth naming, not as something to get over quickly.
Made to be read aloud
Short sentences, a rhythm that carries, and pages that give the reader somewhere to pause.