The Infinity Rainbow Club: Violet and the Jurassic Land Exhibit
Jen Malia, illustrated by Peter Francis
Beaming Books

In this, the second in The Infinity Rainbow Club series, the focus is on Violet. Readers of the first story will recognise her as Nick’s friend and classmate who is learning to manage her OCD. Now the two are partners at a dig being undertaken by palaeontologists including Violet’s mum who works at a natural history museum and her dad, a botanist.. The teacher in charge of the Infinity Rainbow Club. Ms Daisy has arranged for all members plus families to join the dig at Paleo Park over the weekend.

No sooner have the children begun work than Violet and Nick discover what could be a dinosaur bone and sure enough, straightaway Violet’s’s intrusive thoughts start up. She constantly checks her work and worries that how ever carefully she does everything, something will go wrong. What she needs to do is to find how to trust what she’s doing and to enjoy enjoy the Jurassic Land exhibit that is the outcome of all the effort she and the others – Nick especially – have put in.

Jen Malia once again provides a child-friendly picture of a neurodivergent child and her supportive family that includes the wonderful Lao Lao, her grandmother.

A book to share with younger KS2 children who will gain a valuable insight into obsessive compulsive disorder and how one individual manages anxiety, intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviours.