HAPILOTS!

and friends

Meet the gang

THE OFFICIAL HAPILOTS! SITE

WELCOME TO

HAPILOTS!

HapiLots and his friends can’t prevent anyone from falling ill or having to go into hospital and they can’t magic pain away either, but they can help children feel less alone and distract them from yearning for home between visiting hours.

Everybody experiences a little anxiety when going into hospital, not least children.

​It’s not always possible for them to understand exactly why they are there and what is going to happen. Even when they do understand, they still tend to worry and can feel withdrawn and homesick.

Afterall, HapiLots’ knows that laughter is the best kind of medicine.

Characters

A hospital needs a lot of clever and dedicated people to make it work, but we don’t meet everyone. Many people do a vital job and are rarely seen; they clean the hospital at night when we are asleep and bring in supplies so that the doctors and nurses have what they need to help their patients and to feed them too!
Meet the gang

Activities

Keep yourself busy (whether at home or staying in hospital) with HapiLots’ activities! You will need to view the PC version of this site, then you can print them off onto a normal A4 piece of paper!
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Stories

A series of books by author and HapiLots creator, Babs Fowler. Colourful illustrations help to visually tell the stories that are written in “OpenDyslexic” typeface, a font designed to mitigate some of the common reading errors caused by dyslexia.
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Barbara Fowler
and
Huw-J Matsumura

Barbara Fowler was born in Dublin, Ireland and is known to her friends as “Babs”. She now lives in Bournemouth on the south coast of England, with her (very) crazy Boxer dog “Lottie-Jay”.

Huw-J Matsumura currently lives in Kyoto, Japan with his family, where he works as a director and producer. As a veteran of the entertainment and media industry, he was trained by some of the best at Warner Bros., Disney and by Joe Kubert (1926-2012) who is perhaps best known for his work on both DC and Marvel comics.