Thanks for your interest! My name's Rob and I'm Elijah's Dad.
Super Scout is a really important project to back because there aren't many books containing kids with Down syndrome, so for Elijah, this book means a lot. It's a great talking point for him to WOW his friends and everyone he meets and gives him value in society ... big cred points for having your own books!
We look forward to sending you books and having you become a part of the Elijah and Crumpet supporter family. Thank you!
Now here's how we got to where we are today ...
The Elijah and Crumpet story began with a YouTube Channel 3 years ago, after Elijah declared one night at the dinner table, "I'm going to be a famous YouTuber too!" (His big brother, Thomas, had joked that he was going to become a YouTuber!). So we used Crumpet, which Mum had bought earlier on to help with Elijah's speech training, I bought a camera and away we went ...
So began our advocacy journey into the world of social media and video making. We have come a long way in a short space of time ... it just shows that you can do anything if you put your mind to it!
The
Elijah and Crumpet Show now has over 200 videos, thousands of
followers around the world (YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook), we
have been featured in articles and appeared on T.V. and we even got to
meet Hugh Jackman, who said he was a big fan!
Two years ago we ran a
successful crowdfunding campaign
for our first book,
Motivate Man, a personal development book for kids.
We met Andy Marshall through YouTube and he was interested in becoming
a kid's book illustrator. After I challenged him to draw Crumpet and
it looked great, I knew we would make a great team to challenge the experts!
We have now self-published and distributed over 1,500 copies internationally in just 4 months! The concept is that we create a great kid's book, colourfully illustrated and rhyming, which features Elijah and Crumpet, thus introducing kids (and their parents) to someone living with Down syndrome. Not just living, though, but using our YouTube channel they can really see how much fun Elijah has, experience how capable he is, how much we love and value him and be inspired to have high expectations. That applies to all kids and their families.
The Motivate Man project led to collaborations with
Scouts Qld,
Variety Qld,
Logan City Council Libraries
and their
First 5 Forever
team, with more possibilities with other organisations
in the future. All of these organisations are keen to promote
inclusion and diversity for people living with disability. Elijah was
recently selected to give a presentation at the 2021 Childhood Summit
as well! With Elijah being a Scout for the past 6 years, it was a
natural choice to work with them first. 
So this book, Super Scout, is primarily for a scouting audience, since it contains a storyline based on the 6 headings of the Scout Law. But it's also great as a continuation of our personal development theme for kids, as the messages are universal. Scouts will hopefully be able to use the book, buying it from us and selling it as a fundraiser, with all the proceeds being used by each Scout Group.
We have plans for a second Scouting book down the track, once we have finished the book we are writing for the library! Watch this bookshelf! Thanks for your support. Rob and Elijah and Crumpet :)
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