Join Mindy and Mo as they speed on a sledge to a spring festival. Can Mindy and Mo help Sal cheer up Prince Sim and do his favourite dance together before it’s time to leave? This story supports children who are working on the ‘s’ sound. It has been designed to support the individual child but is one which every child can enjoy!

Mindy and Mo love to play in a wood not far away. Join these two fun-loving adventurers as they speed down a mountain on a sledge to a spring festival. Can Mindy and Mo help Sal cheer up Prince Sim and do his favourite dance together before it’s time to leave? What will the fallen tree be the next time they visit? And what will they see?

This Mindy and Mo story has been written to support children who are working on the ‘s’ sound. Support your child’s practice of their target sound by sharing Mindy and Mo’s adventure in Sal and Sim’s town and encouraging them to join in with the ‘soop, soop, soop’ of the Spring Fest. Engaging characters and plot, supported by a rhythmic and rhyming structure, ensure this book not only supports speech development, but also entertains and inspires. Creatively and descriptively told, this story introduces new words and provides opportunities for developing literacy skills. Through positive characterisation, it also explores the themes of growth mindset, empathy, kindness and resilience, allowing children to make connections to their own lives and experiences.

A helpful section of suggested activities at the back of the book can be used to support further practice of the target speech sound. It also includes ideas for how this story can be used to help children to connect to nature through imagination. This humorous and triumphant story has been designed to support the individual child but is one which every child can enjoy!