Eesha and the Mud Monster Mystery

10-year-old Eesha is new to the town and her primary school. She’ s struggling to fit in and soon finds herself the victim of teasing by a small group of girls in her class. After a close encounter with a deep, muddy puddle, this turns into bullying texts and a video that makes Eesha a laughing stock around the school. In a desperate attempt to find a way out of her dark situation, Eesha escapes into her Cyberland, where, together with a faithful and wise red panda, Daxa, she not only works out how she is being bullied, but also how to protect herself in future. Eesha’ s adventure uses the medium of story to help children think about how smart behaviour can help to protect them from texting attacks • Diverse set of characters • Written by a cyber consultant • Playful illustrations by talented illustrator

After being a cyber security consultant for a number of years, Wendy Goucher finds that she is often primarily recognised as the author of the Nettie in Cyberland series. This series was her first adventure in using stories to gently introduce cyber safety to very young children and their parents. Eesha and the Mud Monster Mystery comes from encouragement and feedback after taking the Nettie books into schools and talking to children – which is the best part of being an author. When she is not being a cyber professional or an author, she is probably engaged in sorting out who’ s who.