Category: Early Experiences & Issues
Sometimes hope has four paws, golden eyes and soft black fur. A sweet little kitten called Cleo becomes a good friend to six year old Rob after his big brother, Sam, dies. With Cleo's help, Rob discovers that, even in the toughest times, healing can happen. Based on true events in author Helen Brown's f ...Show more
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
Kids can do amazing things with the right information. Understanding why anxiety feels the way it does and where the physical symptoms come from is a powerful step in turning anxiety around. Anxiety explained, kids empowered. For ages 5-12 (and up).
Category: Junior Fiction
A funny illustrated chapter book about three children who decide someone must bury all the world’s poor dead animals. Esther was very brave. I was little and scared. One summer’s day we started a business called Funerals Ltd, to help all the poor dead animals in the world. Esther di ...Show more
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
A mother recovers from depression by re-discovering a neglected artistic talent. In a dream she meets a lost child, representing the childlike creative spirit she had buried. The child tells the mother to make beautiful pictures so the next day she borrows her children's art supplies and starts painting ...Show more
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
Wherever Jenny goes, her worries follow her - in a big blue bag. They are there when she goes swimming, when she is watching TV, and even when she is in the lavatory. Jenny decides they will have to go. But who can help her? The Huge Bag of Worries was written by Virginia Ironside, one of Britain's lea ...Show more
Category: Early Experiences & Issues | Series: Ready to Go!
The READY TO GO! BEDTIME kit contains everything parents need to make bedtime a success. Learn how to establish a healthy sleep routine for your child with strategies, advice and a rewards program that will help make this important developmental stage as simple and effective as possible. This kit conta ...Show more
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
If kids with anxiety could see their strengths, they would feel so much bigger than their anxiety. They would feel bigger than everything - as though a tiny, tip-toed stretch could have them touching the top of the world from where they are. This book is a reminder for all kids that everything they need ...Show more
Category: Early Experiences & Issues | Series: Feel Brave
Wolfgang is excited to be allowed to have his friends over to stay for the whole night. They all have such fun until the lights go out and Wolfgang's secret fear of the dark is revealed. His friends laugh at him until they hear his story and see the Shadow Monster for themselves! Spider shows Wolfgang a ...Show more
Category: Early Experiences & Issues | Series: Lessons of a LAC
Perfect Petunias is a book especially for those little people who find it hard to make mistakes, designed to 'shape' perfectionistic tendencies towards being a little more self-accepting and flexible. Loppy LAC is very worried about not doing his homework well enough. He is always focusing on what he h ...Show more
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
A small boy watches the strange events that unfold with the birth of his baby brother, who is born with a heart defect. Through his eyes we see the tragedy unfold. This book deals with death of a baby sibling for young children from the point of view of the child.
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
This sturdy, colourful lift-the-flap book has been designed especially as a first exploration of feelings for toddlers and their grown-ups. Features a simple story format, which helps children to identify and name primary feelings, and to recognise the feelings happening inside themselves. Includes a fl ...Show more
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
From award-winning New Zealand author, Craig Phillips, creator of The Adventures of Jack Scratch and Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts (winner of the Russell Clark Award for Illustration at the New Zealand Book Awards 2018).Come along on a journey with Aroha, as she wards off nervousness, fear, worrying t ...Show more
