You are the person who makes houses warm in winter and cool in summer — a superpower, to a kid.
How this is different: This isn't a book where your child pretends to be an hvac technician. It's the book where your child finally understands what you actually do.
Heating and cooling is invisible until it breaks, which is why children have no idea what you do. This personalized book turns rooftop units, refrigerant, and service calls into a story about keeping families comfortable.
What hvac technicians actually do all day
Drive to homes and businesses where the heat or cooling has stopped
Diagnose the fault — electrical, refrigerant, airflow, or a worn part
Fix it on the spot with what is on the truck
Work in the hottest attics and coldest days, because that is when things break
How to explain a hvac technician's job to a child
If your child is 3 or 4
HVAC technicians fix the machines that keep houses warm in winter and cool in summer. When it stops working, they find the broken part and put a new one in.
If your child is 5 to 7
An HVAC technician repairs heating and air conditioning. They test the electrical parts, the airflow, and the refrigerant to find what failed, then replace it so the house is comfortable again.
The tools kids find interesting
Gauges
Multimeter
Refrigerant tank
Work truck full of parts
Flashlight
What a child would notice at a hvac technician's work
A parent crawling into attics and basements
A truck organized like a toolbox
Very grateful people at the door
What kids learn from a WorkTale Book Company book about hvac technicians
How buildings get warm and cold
Why mom or dad drives to different houses
What's inside the box outside
That fixing things takes finding the cause first
Frequently asked questions
Residential or commercial?
We ask, and the scenes match — attics and crawlspaces or rooftops and chillers.
Can my service van be in it?
Yes, with your described colors and no real logos.
Every WorkTale book closes with two pages no name-swap personalized book has. First, a "So, what does Mommy, Daddy, or your grown-up do?" page that distills the parent's entire job into one plain-spoken line a child can recite from memory, with no jargon and no job description. Then an "About the Author" page with the parent's real photograph, name, job title, and a short biography blurb, so the illustrated hero is revealed as the real person the child knows. Why the parent is the hero.