The Pear That Wasn''t There: A PRSIST Story and Social & Emotional Self-Regulation Resource

About Simon Chadwick

Simon Chadwick is an author illustrator and cartoonist based in the New Forest in the UK. Hes created over twenty childrens books to date. Simons cartoon work has appeared on childrens material for many of the UKs leading restaurant leisure and travel brands and for clients in the UK America Canada South Korea Greece the Middle East and Australia. He particularly enjoys drawing wildlife fantastical beasts monsters and dinosaurs. Especially dinosaurs. Dr Steven Howard is a researcher with Early Start at University of Wollongong in Australia. His program of research investigates the development of self-regulation and related abilities in the early years of life as well as the educational implications of these changing capacities. In addition to his work around supporting childrens self-regulation development (this series and Quincey Quokkas Quest) he is also a co-founder of the iPad-based Early Years Toolbox to assess preschoolers executive functioning and self-regulation (to which Simon Chadwick was also a contributor).