SCREEN TIME TALES
WHERE MOTHER GOOSE MEETS BLACK MIRROR
Welcome to Screen Time Tales - a funny, irreverent, and um, ever-so-slightly weird picture book series that helps kids (and the grown-ups who raise them) snort-laugh through the noise of our excruciatingly online era. These stories don’t preach—they lampoon, and seek to spark conversations about screen time, attention, social media, and emotional wellbeing in a way that’s playfully subversive and fun to read aloud.
If you're looking for cautionary tales about kids and technology, or bedtime stories with a side of digital detox—but don't want to be a tedious scold, you're in the right place!
VOL. 2: FOMO THE SCREEN ZOMBIE
Fomo is a hungry little fellow who's so glued to his gadget, he keeps missing chances to chow down on yummy zombie treats!
Jam-packed with silly easter eggs, Fomo's hapless screen time adventure pokes fun at our device-obsessed world using subversive, non-preachy parody to help tame the proverbial screen time beast! [Full Details]
On Sale Halloween 2025!
Hardcover & Paperback, 32 pp.
VOL. 1: THE LIKING TREE
The Original Anti-Social Media Parable
The Liking Tree is a satirical picture book about kids and social media, screen time, electronic devices and the bottomless hunger for digital attention.
The 2025 second edition is wholly reimagined, with all-new illustrations by the author that are wilder, wackier, and more wickedly on-point to capture the story's subversive spirit. [Full Details]
Hardcover & Paperback, 54 pp.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Allen Wooden is a recovering screen zombie and Emmy-winning satirist whose work has been praised as “hilarious” by The New York Times and “remarkable” by Esquire. He is the previous head writer and founder of comedy brands including Comedy Central’s JOKES.COM, the acclaimed WHITEHOUSE.ORG parody, and Conan O'Brien's Team Coco. A Vermont native, Wooden studied literature and writing at Brown University, and currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, two kiddos, and two lizards.