Encourage children in imaginative play with Mo's Stick

Posted on Friday, March 13, 2026
Category: Growing Readers

Author and illustrator Fiona Lumbers tells ReadingZone about her new picture book, Mo's Stick, a simple but powerful story about the power of children's imaginations, to encourage little ones in their own imaginative play. 

More about Mo's Stick:Little Mo is sad; he has lost his favourite stick, and doesn't think any other stick will be able to help him fly to the stars, or draw and create, like his old stick. But perhaps Mo, with his very big imagination, can find something else to play with?


Review: "Superbly capturing the joys of imaginative play and how simple things can have far more impact than the most expensive toys, Mo's Stick is everything a picture book should be!"


Find out more in ReadingZone's Q&A with Fiona Lumbers