Category: Early Experiences & Issues
A poignant and pertinent exploration of life below the poverty line from the critically acclaimed award-winning creator of My Name is Not Refugee. Mum works really hard, but today there is no money left and no food in the cupboards. Forced to visit the local foodbank, Mum feels ashamed that they have ...Show more
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
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 of nervousness, fear, worrying th ...Show more
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
Even princesses use the potty! Princess Polly's Potty is an entertaining picture book from Ladybird that helps parents struggling with potty training for toddlers aged 18+ months. Easily follow along with the fun pictures, showing little ones that even princesses have anxiety about using the potty ...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
Bold and beautiful, loud and proud, All Bodies are Good Bodies is an uplifting book about different body features and types. Through playful rhyme, it promotes the development of body acceptance and celebrates inclusivity and individuality. I love hands! Hands that are white and hands that a ...Show more
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
Elmer is not like the other boy ducklings. While they like to build forts, he loves to bake cakes. While they like to play baseball, he wants to put on the halftime show. Elmer is a great big sissy. But when his father is wounded by a hunter's shot, Elmer proves that the biggest sissy can also be the gr ...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
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: Early Experiences & Issues | Series: My Feelings
All children experience feelings of sadness at times, from hurting themselves to finding out their favourite toy is broken. But this beautifully expressive but playful picture book shows children what to do when they feel this strong emotion, and suggests some brilliant ways to help themselves to feel b ...Show more
