A world where every child sees themselves in a story — and finds their way through it.
These books did not begin in a publisher's office.
They began at bedtime.
A child in bed. A hard day behind them. A feeling sitting heavy on their chest that they did not yet have the words for. And a mother — reaching, the way mothers do — for just the right story to make it a little lighter.
Georgena Yanoff made those stories up on the spot. For years. A new character when a new challenge arrived. A new adventure when something needed explaining. A crab with wise words. A shark learning to listen. A hedgehog discovering that the very thing that made him different was the thing that made him extraordinary.
She did not know then that she was writing books. She only knew that the right story, told at the right moment, could do something no lesson plan ever could.
What she did know — from more than forty years as a Occupational Therapist — was exactly what children and adults often need to during difficult times in their lives. For children, its how they build resilience. How they learn to regulate the feelings that threaten to overwhelm them. How the stories we tell them become the stories they tell themselves.
The Porgy & Petunia™ series is where those two lives meet. The clinician and the mother. The science and the story. The forty years of practice and the bedtime voice that knew, somehow, just what to say.
These books were made for your child. Because once, a long time ago, they were made for hers.
— Georgena Yanoff · Founder · Porgy & Petunia Press
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Built on 40 years of OT experience
These are not just charming stories. Every word is shaped by decades of real clinical work with children and adults — the kind of understanding you cannot get from a writing class.
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Meets your child exactly where they are
Big feelings. A voice that is too loud. Being different in a world that wants you the same. These books do not talk down to children — they sit beside them and say: I see you.
Ages 2–5 · Emotional regulation & social skills
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Every child can read it
Every book in the series is typeset in Dyslexie Font — designed specifically for children with dyslexia. Because a book that leaves any child behind is not the book we wanted to write.
Dyslexie Font by Christian Boer · Inclusive by design
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Born from real bedtime stories
These characters were invented on the spot, at the end of hard days, for real children who needed the right story. That is still exactly what they are — and exactly why they work.
A mother's instinct · A clinician's knowledge
"The right story is waiting for your little one."
Porgy & Petunia Press
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