A Delightful Human Difference - PRE ORDER

Pre-order your copy of this e-book now and you'll be invited to attend a once-only online Q&A session with authors, Matthew and Janelle, on Wednesday 14 October 2026.

A Delightful Human Difference: Reframing ADHD for Good

by Matthew Johnstone and Janelle Booker



A fabulous new PDF e-book, best read on tablets, laptops and desktops

Release date: 1st October 2026

Matthew Johnstone is the internationally bestselling author and illustrator of I Had a Black Dog, and has worked with the World Health Organisation on mental health advocacy.

Meet Kipi Comelately. She's creative, kind, and quietly convinced she's failing at life. That's until a friend suggests she might have ADHD. A Delightful Human Difference follows Kipi as she learns to understand her brain, not as a disorder to fix, but as a different kind of brain with real strengths and real challenges.

Our whole desire with this e-book is to reframe what ADHD means. To replace a label that has never done justice to the people who carry it with something far more accurate: recognition, understanding, empathy and healing.

This book doesn't seek to frame ADHD as a superpower. Instead, the intention is to contribute to the growing conceptualisation of ADHD as being a different kind of brain. One that is hard-wired with strengths as well as challenges that can be quite different to neurotypical brains.

A Delightful Human Difference is a large and deeply personal piece of work, featuring around 90 original illustrations. ADHD is a vast, fascinating, and widely misunderstood topic, and this book is our attempt to do it justice.

Pre-order your copy of this e-book now and receive an invitation to attend a once-only online Q&A session with Matthew and Janelle on Wednesday 14 October 2026.