Paperback: 152 pages Publisher: Tamarisk Books (2025) Language: English ISBN-13: 978-738551149 Genre: Children’s Literature Reading Age: 7 to 18 years Buy this book online from: Amazon

‘… a beautifully bonkers masterpiece…….’ Daniel Love

Jinny is a young girl who is always in trouble. She has her big furry cat Frumpy and her beloved floppy hat Hatty for company, but her mind is often looking for ways to escape. On the borders of sleep, she experiences delightful flying and lucid dreams, but also terrifying tunnels and a swirling black void. And even the flying can easily get out of control when it takes her to faraway oceans in a body that keeps changing size.

With Hatty’s help, and to Frumpy’s benefit, she learns how to control her imagination, how to appreciate these extraordinary experiences rather than being frightened by them, and how to be nicer and kinder, even to her horrid brother. The story inspires young readers and their parents to talk about odd experiences and things that happen in the night—to explore the antics of our own minds, not just to ignore them, fear them, or brush them away.

The book ends with a section called “The real-life Jinny Jana”, in which Sue Blackmore, the author, and an expert on altered states of consciousness, sets out what we know about the science and spirituality of Jinny’s experiences.

Book Reviews:

“what might just be the best lucid dreaming book ever written for children – Susan Blackmore and Emily Troscianko’s beautifully bonkers masterpiece, Jinny Jana’s Giant Journeys.”

Daniel Love, Lucid Dreaming Teacher (read full review here)