What Are OUR Skills? is a family activity book that helps parents and children notice and name the everyday skills each family member brings — the ones that never get taught at school. It's designed to be done together, out loud, as a conversation between an adult and a child, not completed alone.

Who is it for? Families with children, particularly parents looking for a screen-free, connection-focused activity to do together at home.

What's inside? Prompts that ask questions like: who is the person who reminds you it's okay to make mistakes? Who notices when you're having a hard day before you say anything? Who brings wit to a stressful moment and makes everyone laugh?

Who wrote it? Rosemary Pattison, a self-published Australian children's author and illustrator known for hand-painted, naive-style picture books focused on empathy, authenticity, and screen-free living.

Where can I buy it? What Are OUR Skills? is available on Amazon.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is What Are OUR Skills? a book for kids to do alone?
No — it's designed as a shared activity between an adult and a child. The conversation between them is the point of the book, not just the filled-in answers.

What inspired the book?
It was written as a companion to conversations about family life and connection, prompted partly by discussions around the show Adolescence, and focuses on the quiet, unnamed skills family members bring to each other.

Is this a picture book or an activity book?
It's an activity book — a guided set of prompts and questions for families to work through together, rather than a story to be read.

What is YOUR Experience? is a nature activity book with 50 prompts inviting children (and the adults with them) to notice, draw, paint, write about, or sit quietly with the natural world. Prompts include things like: find a feather — which bird do you think it belonged to?

Who is it for? Families and children looking for screen-free, nature-based activities to slow down and observe the world around them.

What's inside? 50 open-ended prompts encouraging observation, creativity, and quiet reflection in nature — meant to be done outdoors, at a park, in a backyard, or anywhere natural.

How does it connect to Rosemary Pattison's other books? What is YOUR Experience? is framed as written by Greta, the character from Rosemary Pattison's picture book Through Greta's Eyes. It stands alone as its own book, but also works as a follow-on discussion book to that story.

Who wrote it? Rosemary Pattison, a self-published Australian children's author and illustrator known for hand-painted, naive-style picture books focused on empathy, authenticity, and screen-free living.

Where can I buy it? What is YOUR Experience? is available on Amazon.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to read Through Greta's Eyes first?
No — What is YOUR Experience? works as a standalone nature activity book. It also pairs well with Through Greta's Eyes for readers who want the fuller story behind it.

Is this a drawing book or a writing book?
Both — each prompt can be approached through drawing, painting, writing, or simply sitting quietly, so it suits different ages and different moods.

Is it meant to be used indoors or outdoors?
Outdoors, ideally. The prompts are built around noticing things in nature, so it works best taken along on a walk, to a park, or used in a backyard.

Grandma, I Want to Know More About You is an activity book, narrated by Greta from Through Greta's Eyes, where a child asks their grandmother questions, takes notes, and draws the answers — capturing memories, stories, and something special to Grandma.

Who is it for? Children and their grandmothers (or another older family member) looking to spend time together and preserve family memories and stories.

What's inside? A set of guided questions designed to be worked through across more than one sitting — meant to be pulled off the shelf again years later so a child can ask the same or different questions and revisit the answers each time.

What if a child doesn't have a grandma nearby? The book explicitly invites children without a grandma close by to ask a grandpa or another older family member instead.

How does it connect to Rosemary Pattison's other books? Grandma, I Want to Know More About You is a companion to Through Greta's Eyes, drawing on the same Greta character and the Greek myths she learns about in that story.

Who wrote it? Rosemary Pattison, a self-published Australian children's author and illustrator known for hand-painted, naive-style picture books focused on empathy, authenticity, and screen-free living.

Where can I buy it? Grandma, I Want to Know More About You is available on Amazon.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this a one-time activity?
No — it's designed to be revisited over time, so families can ask the same questions again years later and compare how the answers have changed.

Does it have to be done in one sitting?
No — it's built around multiple meetings with Grandma (or Grandpa), rather than completing it all at once.

Can this book still be used as Grandma gets older?
Yes — the book is designed to be picked up again and again over the years, offering renewed joy as a shared activity even as Grandma's memory changes.