Sunderland-Based Author Hannah Graham’s New Book Being Provided to Hospitals
Written by Katie Higson on 16th November 2025
Sunderland Royal Hospital and Newcastle Victoria Royal Infirmary are providing families on their neonatal units with a book written and illustrated by Hannah Graham, a North-East based children’s author.
The book is titled ‘Looking Through the Plastic’ and aims to help older siblings of neonatal babies.
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Due to the charity Tiny Lives, the children’s book is now being provided in support packs to families with babies that are being treated in local neonatal units. The charity helped fund Hannah’s book and bought the first 500 published editions of the book.
The book is also available to pre-order now.
Tiny Lives is an organisation that supports premature and sick newborn babies and their families across the North East and North Cumbria. It is primarily based at the neonatal unit in Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary.
Hannah wrote and illustrated the book after spending time in both neonatal units in 2018 with her husband, Mark, and son, Peter, who was born three months early.
Watch the video below to listen to Hannah explain the plot and her journey creating the book:
This interview was filmed at the Sunderland café Shahi Chai, one of the main locations and inspirations when Hannah was writing her book.
-Find Hannah Graham on Instagram (click here for link)
-Buy Hannah Graham’s book ‘Looking Through the Plastic’ (click here for link)
-Pre-order Hannah Graham’s new book ‘A Ship’s Cat’ (click here for link)
-Find more information about charity ‘Tiny Lives’ (click here for link)
