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The Boy Who Lost His Laugh

Brief Description
Tim loves his collection of dinosaurs — but one thing he’d love even more is a family of his own. Tim’s beloved dinosaur collection travels with him wherever he goes. But Tim travels a lot — he is a foster child and has to move from... Read More
Format: Hardback
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The Boy Who Lost His Laugh takes a sensitive look at foster care from the child’s perspective and shows how humour and love can help you bounce back and find what you’ve been looking for.  

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Tim loves his collection of dinosaurs — but one thing he’d love even more is a family of his own.

Tim’s beloved dinosaur collection travels with him wherever he goes. But Tim travels a lot — he is a foster child and has to move from one family to the next all too often.

Tim is always losing things, so when he moves in with the Lee family, he doesn’t bother unpacking his dinosaurs in case they get lost when he has to move again. But one day he realises he has lost something just as precious as his dinosaurs: his laugh. He doesn’t know where he lost it, but it has definitely disappeared.

The kind Lee family help Tim look for his laugh, but no one can find it anywhere. Then one day, some news arrives that might just help Tim find his laugh again.

The Boy Who Lost His Laugh takes a sensitive look at foster care from the child’s perspective and shows how humour and love can help you bounce back and find what you’ve been looking for all along.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781921497162

Publisher: Exisle Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 March 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: EK Books

Illustration: Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Heidi Cooper Smith

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 32

About the Author

Dimity Powell has published over 30 stories including This is My Dad, the award-winning At the End of Holyrood Lane and the critically acclaimed, The Fix-It Man. Heidi Cooper Smith is an author–illustrator. She illustrates digitally using watercolour brushes and writes quirky, whimsical stories.

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